The Late Christopher Bean
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Nov 11, 2009
Closed Dec 12, 2009
Opened Nov 11, 2009
Closed Dec 12, 2009
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Yankee practicality collides with New York's sophisticated Art World in the sly 1930's comedy, The Late Christopher Bean. All hell breaks loose when a celebrated painter's early works are traced to the humble home of a country doctor. Both a biting satire on the destructive power of greed and a touching view of a family in turmoil, this feisty comedy will have you cheering for the most unlikely heroines.
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The Late Christopher Bean, Sidney Howard's 1932 comedy now being presented by TACT at the Beckett Theatre, is admittedly old-fashioned. So what? Under Jenn Thompson's warm and tidy direction, it's loaded with laughs; it has nine carefully articulated parts for the accomplished actors assembled here to enliven; and it contains genuine plot surprises right up to the deeply satisfying curtain line. What more do you need?
The play accusingly yet forgivingly looks at what happens to the Haggett family when the prospect of making a pile of dough suddenly looms. Some years before the play begins, an impoverished artist named Christopher Bean was given room and board by hard-working Dr. Haggett [...]