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Theater;`Play's the Thing': The Farce Side

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19930508
Author:Jeanne Cooper

Part drawing-room comedy and part backstage farce, "The Play's the Thing" finds the Washington Stage Guild in its element. The production matches the company's penchant for arch Shavian humor with a giddy, "Noises Off" plot.

P.G. Wodehouse adapted the 1926 play by a contemporary of his, Hungarian author Ferenc Molnar. This explains the Central European names for the otherwise familiar characters in Wodehousian smoking jackets and evening gowns. But Molnar's play is as much about playwriting as people.

Mansky and Turai are a famous playwriting team vacationing at an Italian castle with Turai's ...

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