Old Acquaintance
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jun 28, 2007
Closed Aug 19, 2007
Opened Jun 28, 2007
Closed Aug 19, 2007
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Running Time:
2hr. 10min.
(includes 2 intermission)
2hr. 10min.
(includes 2 intermission)
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Roundabout Theatre Company presents a revival of John Van Druten's comedy, Old Acquaintance, directed by Michael Wilson.
This drawing-room comedy is about two childhood friends who have grown into very different adults. Though they are both successful authors, independent Katharine "Kit" Markham carries on an affair with a younger man while divorcee Mildred "Millie" Drake refuses to loosen the apron-strings on her teenage daughter, Deidre. But when Deidre's struggles to become more like her idol Kit have far-reaching consequences, the two women who thought they were growing apart may have much more in common than they'd like to admit.
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If you want to know whether a play from the creaky past can be timely, John van Druten's 1940 comedy Old Acquaintance, now being presented by the Roundabout Theatre Company, provides an answer in the solidly affirmative. The play is the kind of work scorned nowadays because it deals in pat contrivances. Yet its subject matter -- friendship -- never dates. Certainly the women in the audience will recognize the sustained camaraderie examined here and will applaud van Druten's understanding of female bonding.
"Your mother's like family to me," Kit Markham (Margaret Colin) tells Deirdre Drake (Diane Davis) about old pal Mildred Watson Drake (Harriet Harris). "She remembers the same things [...]