Show le Bourgeois Play Amuses Crowd By PAT BEX IT A JOHNSON For those of us who enjoy a long escape into a Tuesday night's performance of Bourgeois was restorative The production did not aspire to Moliere's high satiric comedy but was content to make farce the sole source of its undeniable Rather than coherent satire revolving around a bourgeois ludicrously assuming the University Theatres production Was a series of slap-stick The editors of the production Moliere's three-act Play into a first no and a slightly shorter second no some fatigue often prevented the audien-ces and the unrelieved of raucous scene upon raucous scene tended to distract from interesting and amusing addition to the comedy in-red by the purely ele- mistaken screeching much of e comedy does not come from Pantomime of the individual W respect Ted por-sun 1 f the music master was k His facial expressions and owr not supported his lines but continually complemented the action of the other Roy Gibson as the cred-at gentilhomme was an ed tn 8 he fail-sarv the intensity Central character until h WaS made an honorary r mock is the second In that Holland initiation Harold Grand set a the oh perfect which I L lJ Jo Anderson the out-spoken and Naomi S. Farr the delicately feminine daughter of le bourgeois were consistently good in their portrayals of the contrasting yet complementary love A musical comedy effect was added to Moliere's play by Farr's charming an orchestra playing seventeenth century a trio of male voices at the beginning of the second and the singing and dancing choruses which should have been on the stage less and rehearsed much of judicious the University Theatre's production of Bourgeois was an excellent lowbrow |