Word: plain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CAST of Winthrop House Dramatic Society's production of The Plain Dealer asks its audience to "Laugh at fools aloud, before their mistresses." Yet unlike the popular (or unpopular) image of Restoration comedy, this play is more than just laughter, fools and mistresses...
...seagull drinks water off the roof of a factory. The narrow streets flash by perpendicular to the tracks. Down through a narrow gorge bordered on both sides by elevated highways, and then a flat plain crowded by a colony of monstrous housing projects, each twenty-story building in the shadow of its neighbor...
...Crescent creaks into South Station, and in a minute its passengers have disembarked and are walking to the terminal. Inside the newstand and bakery are closed, and only a few people here and there wait in the high-ceilinged, dimly-lit hall. A wiry, haunch-backed man, wearing a plain grey uniform, whistles softly as he sweeps the floor with a lazy push of his broom...
...Plain Dealer is by William Wycherly, one of those Restroation comics who wrote incredibly convoluted plots and long intricate one-liners which I neither understand nor enjoy. More perceptive critics have compared it to The Misanthrope, however. At Winthrop House...
...good as the next fellow" is not always a realistic or even noble sentiment. Equality as similarity is a hopeless goal, as any plain girl realizes when she watches the progress of a pretty woman down a street. People are favored by nature, birth or fortune; they outdo others by talent, effort and luck. Many equality arguments turn on trying to redress the inequities of "them as has gits...