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...Vellucci's suggestion in 1956 that the city turn Harvard Yard into a bus station. For Councilors seeking the working-class vote--like Vellucci of East Cambridge and Thomas W. Danehy of North Cambridge--the dislike of town for gown is the Cantabrigian equivalent of log cabins and hard cider...
Sweet, innocent Jonny (Philip Brittan) loves Cathy (Julie Scott), who seems as sweet and innocent as her boyfriend, except for some not too casually dropped hints about her suppressed sordid tendencies. The better-defined characters in Jonny and Cathy's large coterie include the disturbed Cider (played with scenerychewing gusto by David Buttaro), who carries a book of Nietzsche in one hand and a bottle in the other; Isaiah (Jason Cogan), who is a first year Harvard Law student and big-brother figure to Jonny; Mare (Jennifer Hodges), a tough whore; and Strawberry (Lena Strayhorn), a flirtatious ditz...
...character try to explain themselves through Davenport's musical soliloquies, which come in two flavors: happy, upbeat, major-key ditties, and sad, brooding, minor-key ballads. All the songs have instantly forgettable melodies and lyrics, although some of the ballad melodies are mildly interesting for their complexity. The manic Cider gets the best of these, but his violent rampage during the song makes the audience laugh, destroying the song's effect...
...Cider is also the catalyst for most of the ridiculous things that happen in this play. He pushes the drunken Jonny into the arms of Mare, who seduces him. Guilt-stricken and distraught, Jonny tries to commit suicide in Cider's presence, but accidentally shoots Cathy's roommate dead and is subsequently sent to prison...
...prison/freedom imagery runs throughout the play, with Cider finding in violence freedom from what he calls "the prison" of alcohol, and Mare (and later Cathy) finding in prostitution freedom from economics imprisonment...