on March 11, 2013
By Donald Munro
[Editor’s Note: We re-run this today in recognition of the recent opening of The One-Act Play That Goes Wrong. We have been unable to find a review, so we can’t report whether whatever was supposed to go wrong did.]
The title of the 1917 play “Why Marry?” is, of course, a question. Another that might come to mind is this: How could characters from nearly 100 years ago possibly have anything relevant to say about marriage as an institution?
It turns out the answer is quite a lot, as we learn in Fresno City College’s studious and insightful production....
Director James Knudsen modernized the production by trimming it from three acts to two and excising some of the repetitive and archaic language. Even when it comes to such “in the past” themes as women’s suffrage and divorce, however, what remains doesn’t seem hoary or old-fashioned....
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Unfortunately, the “full review on the Fresno Bee website,” which we linked to ten years ago, is no longer available.
| Copyright © 2013 by Donald Munro, Fresno Bee |
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