playwright: Noel Coward
director: Judy Myers
set designer: Kit Mayer
light designer: Kirstin "Fluffy" Blake
costume designer: Caitlin Murphy
cast: Caitlin Murphy, Jhardon Milton, Claire Murphy, Andrew Russell, Allison Fisch, Rick Baustian
Two, well-to-do, married women come unglued when they get word that Maurice, a man with whom they both have had an affair with (prior to being married) is in town and wants to meet with them.
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Although this isn't the most popular of Coward's plays, there's still an obvious Noel Coward-ness about it, which is what makes it work. And what is that Noel Coward-ness....? The ability to work the English language with delightful characters in a comedy of manners.
The production was fine. The set was gorgeous, and the lighting appropriate. The acting was generally fine -- about average for a college production. The young women did quite an admirable job and really held their own. The men playing their husbands were much too feminine to be believable -- I still don't know if that was intentional ... to suggest reasons for the marriage troubles (and I have read that some suggest that the men were having their own affair with each other), or if it is a result of the actors who were cast. In either case, it wasn't helpful.
Still...a delightful production of a rarely seen play.
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