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...anchored by Edmunds' fire-wheel lead guitar, Lowe's bemused vocals and fast-breaking bass ("I'm never gonna win any awards for my playing"). The sound-straight, uncomplicated, meant to give you a quick hit of euphoria-has its roots in the defunct British group Brinsley Schwarz. Lowe put in a five-year stint with the Brinsleys, while Edmunds produced some of their songs...
...sold spurious signatures of Mary Magdalene, Pontius Pilate and Lazarus (after his resurrection). Some of the great forgeries have acquired genuine value, notably a play purported to be by Shakespeare that was "discovered" by 18year-old William Henry Ireland in 1795 and was actually produced in London by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (the first-night audience howled it down...
...only play playing around Harvard this weekend is Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals, at the Loeb--it's getting a good production, by all accounts, so if you like Restoration comedy (there's no accounting for tastes) it's probably all right. Which is probably more than you can say for some of the other things around...Bertolt Brecht's In the Jungle of Cities is mostly just incomprehensible (369 Performance Center, near Union Square in Somerville), Changes is evidently mostly just improvisatory (Theater Two, near Kendall Square), and vacation is evidently, mercifully, unbelievably, mostly just imminent, and high...
...RIVALS is like an extended television sitcom set back in the late eighteenth century. It has the same seemingly unresolvable confusion of events and the same stereotyped characters, who only remain unique here through the saving grace of Sheridan's lines. Richard Brinsley Sheridan wrote the play in 1775 but with a little rewriting and an update on the cursing ('Zounds' and Odds whips and wheels' just wouldn't make it any more) the play could easily run on Broadway as a slow-paced Neil Simon comedy. Director Norman Ayrton has already begun the rewrite in a minor way. Originally...
...Rivals, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, is the play that introduced Mrs. Malaprop and herisms to the world. It's getting a Mainstage production with a professional director, Norman Ayrton, so chances are that it should be good, I guess. The play itself is simply eleemosynary. Opens tonight at 8 at the Loeb...