Carl Forsman, who founded the Keen Company two years ago, doesn't explain the choice of the word "Keen" in the program's mission statement. Perhaps the adjective is meant to suggest that he intends to focus only on reviving vintage plays he's keen on. The attraction clearly hasn't anything to do with a work's being a charming antique. "If there isn't some aspect that resonates with an audience today," he said in a recent interview, "I won't do it."

At first glance, then, his choice of Gertrude Tonkogony's 1933 comedy, Three-Cornered
Moon -- which Ruth Gordon graced on stage and Claudette Colbert starred in on film -- is a head-scratcher. This is a goofball piece featuring a household ful[...]