Word: wrens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...give this much to the Luftwaffe," the Prince said at the annual dinner of the Corporation of London Planning and Communications Committee. "When it knocked down our buildings, it didn't replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that." Worst of all, he complained, Sir Christopher Wren's majestic St. Paul's Cathedral has been overshadowed by a jumble of ugly office buildings. "In the space of a mere 15 years, in the '60s and '70s, your predecessors as the planners, architects and developers wrecked the London skyline and desecrated the dome of St. Paul...
...Beatrice literally shuts out the world and takes out her despair on those who cannot escape her, her daughters and the invalids. Ruth (Robyn Fass) tries to escape her stifling influence by flirting with the boys at school, and Tillie, the younger daughter (Celia Wren) absorbs herself in the marvelous power of the atom, (or as she pointedly pronounces it--"a-tum") which becomes a metaphor for the potency of human relationships...
Unfortunately, Fass and Wren seem to detach themselves from this love-hate relationship--and distance the audience at the same time...
First of the four expected guests to arrive is Christopher Wren, an eccentric young man who loves cooking and other men. Donal Logue plays this character with flair, but also with a touch of caricature. Entering from stage left is Mrs. Boyle (Jennifer Hodges), who wears far too much makeup on her face and powder in her hair. Boyle is a "bloody bat," a chronic complainer trapped at Monkswell Manor by the ongoing blizzard. But Hodges lacks the voice and mannerisms for which the part calls...
...THIS WEIRDNESS the portrayal of the three witches (Allison Brody, Sarah Jane Cohen, and Celia M. Wren) as grade-school girls instead of old hags: their giggling and maledictions sung like nursery rhymes creates an odd but real menace. But the originality of this show gives out long before the final curtain, as it shies away from severely tampering with the conventions and gives us a typical collegiate run through the Riverside Edition...