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A lover, a loner, and plentyof laughs in `Captain's Doll'

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20061101
Author:Sandy MacDonald

Stage Review

The Captain's Doll

Play by D. H. Lawrence.

Adapted and directed by Jeff Zinn.

Set, Jackie Levinson. Lights, Kevin Hardy. Costumes, Emily Taradash.

At: Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, through Nov. 5. 508-349- 9428, what.org

WELLFLEET - For an avowed commitment-phobe who professes to loathe love, Captain Hepburn, a Scottish officer stationed in Germany in the wake of World War I, certainly manages to sustain his fair share of romantic attachments.

At the outset of "The Captain's Doll," nimbly adapted from a 1921 D.H. Lawrence story by Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater cofounder Jeff ...

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