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...wonderfully dilapidated one, designed by Derek McLane), from disturbing reality to comic illusion, occur smoothly under Maddy DeLone's crisp direction. DeLone makes full use of the intimate confines of the Winthrop House JCR, organizing the human traffic with all the aplomb of a Back Bay traffic cop. A Stoppard play needs technical gadgetry: for true comic effect, Enter a Free Man should have a "Rule Britannia" clock, a few portraits of the Queen, BBC radio droning in the background, and "indoor rain." The Winthrop production manages well without them, but the loss of these elements cannot help but detract...
Feeling safe once inside, I got to work. The more I thought about the incident, the stranger it seemed. I decided that if they guy was passing himself off as a cop, the Harvard Police should know about it. At 7 a.m. I called them. A man answered the phone and I told him what happened. I described the "policeman" as wearing a blue quilted vest and a dark shirt. The cop chuckled, "He's here with me right now. Don't worry, he is one of our detectives, he was going to give you a ride." I was surprised...
Then I got angry. How could I have known this guy was a policeman? It seems that a plainclothes cop wouldn't go around telling people his identity. I walk strongly and rapidly, I can't believe that I looked like I needed aid. I didn't ask for help, so why did this guy stop me? Because he thought I was attractive? I've been taught that this is not the way to meet people. I don't see why I should accept behavior from a policeman that I wouldn't accept from any other man in the street...
...police station is not the first place anyone would go to look for a little romance, but audiences willing to put up with Writer Wambaugh's customary cop grunginess will find in The Black Marble a sweetly eccentric love story...
...himself (he has a parakeet and a gerbil). Galvanized, he begins to notice Natalie and then to woo her with Russian vodka and folk songs, notably one about nightingales singing in the raspberry bushes. Then he manages to rescue the dog and save Natalie from marriage to a careerist cop, who obviously does not waste time on stolen dogs or singing birds...