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she cries, They disobeyed me?
Snuck out and betrayed their own mother?
They went and disobeyed ME!
Well, heaven help em!
CAUSE NOW I GOT TO RAISE HELL!
Were psyched, both to experience the frisson of worlds and styles colliding and to seewhat will happen next.
Characters inThe House That Will Not Standbreak into long bouts of song or trancelike verse or exalted invocation.
The house shakes as if tossed by an earthquake!
Paintings fall off the wall.
its also a play in which Gardley prescribes up front that his characters are grand but not melodramatic.
Wait, but why?
Thus begins the crumbling in classical tragedy mode over the next 24 hours of the house of Beatrice Albans.
ButThe House That Will Not Standisnt fully a tragedy, because the play doesnt belong entirely to Beatrice.
As Beatrices power disintegrates, Makedas star begins to rise.
The productions sense of staying a bit too often on the stylistic fence is also furthered by its design.
The House That Will Not Standis at New York Theater Workshop through August 12.
