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...words Williams places in the mouth of his narrator, Tom Wingfield, in effect give permission to the audience to become caught up in this nostalgic dream world without embarrassment: "The play is memory. Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental, it is not realistic." Williams's candor and excellent performances by the cast make the familiar inhabitants of this smoky, battered memory sympathetic, rather than corny. Since her husband, a telephone man "in love with distance," skipped St. Louis, Amanda Wingfield (Melissa Mueller) has ruled her son and daughter with badgering questions and faded Southern charm...
...times, it looked more like street rioting than Davis Cup tennis. Indeed, the cup finals, won by the U.S. last week on the rust-red clay courts of Bucharest, seldom even resembled the mannerly game perfected in 1873 by Major Walter Clopton Wingfield as a diversion for English society...
...these days, but the person who made the statement, "In the hands of such masters as Tennessee Williams and Edward Albee, individuals were always shown to be deviates first and human beings second," in a review of The Boys in the Band [March 30], is an idiot. Is Amanda Wingfield more deviate than human? Is Blanche DuBois? Is Maggie Pollitt? Is Serafina Delle Rose? Is Tom Wingfield? Is Mitch in Streetcar"? Is Big Daddy, for that matter? If these people are deviates first and human beings second then I am not a homosexual sitting at a typewriter in Philadelphia...
...Hedda has sprung is simply stated in the program notes by Ted van Griethuysen, who directed the play and is also the company's artistic director: "Hedda Gabler is a good person." The premise itself is highly debatable. Is Falstaff a good person? Are Ivanov and Amanda Wingfield good persons? As soon as a great playwright has performed an in-depth analysis and portrayal of a character, that character transcends the confining categories of good and evil. Such a character then becomes rich, opaque, fascinating, and strangely elusive of definition-in precisely the way that provocative and interesting people...
...word, no. But it reminds me of 1874. Imagine! W. E. Gladstone attacked papal infallibility in his pamphlet, The Vatican Decrees, Solomon introduced the pressure-cooking method for canning foods, Richard Wagner completed Götterddmmerung, and Wingfield invented lawn tennis. And, oh yes-civil marriage was made compulsory in Germany...