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Even in the wake of The Exorcist, it is too much to ask an audience to take seriously a plot about a young witch-boy of the Ozarks who turns human to marry his sweetheart but is turned back into a witch by the jealous schemes of the witch-girls he has left behind. The only magic in the play consists of the near-miracle that the cast is good enough to keep the audience's attention...
After enough last-minute overhauling to sink a less determined group, the production is remarkably spirited. The witch-boy (Bob Buesman) puts together a set of mannerisms that brings an air of mystery to the stage, and his feline presence provides a focus for the rest of the cast. His human sweetheart (Ruth Freedman) makes an appealing victim, and the rest of the townspeople are engagingly high-spirited and down-to-earth. The preacher (Bob Stier) takes the caricature of old-time religion just far enough to be convincing, and the play is best at capturing the small-town fundamentalism...
Dark of the Moon, by Howard Richardson and William Berney, purports to be a folk drama about Tennessean witches. This witch boy wants to be a real boy but the girl he's in love with breaks her supernatural contract and he has to go back to witchery. Word is that she, on the other hand, got a job taking dictation at the White House, Tonight till Saturday, 8 p.m. in the Leverett Old Library...
When he looked at the exposed leg, a broad grin crept over his clean-shaven face. Oblivious of the girl's tortured movements, he beckoned his assistant over to the bed. "Mira," he said, and began to laugh. "El trabajo del brujo." The work of the witch. He pointed to the streaks of tobacco dye that covered the bruises on the girl's leg. An expert in herbal medicine in the girl's village had applied the tobacco in line with an ancient tradition that prescribes herbal cures for injuries of all kinds. The girl, her leg still swollen with...
Dark of the Moon is by two nice gentlemen named Howard Richardson and William Berney. It takes place in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. Its story concerns a witch boy who turns human to marry a girl named Barbara Allen. At the end, as the McGraw Encyclopedia of World Drama eloquently puts it, "once again a witch, John looks without recognition at the body of the girl he once loved." Well, the course of true love never did run smooth. This weekend and next in the Leverett Old Library...