Sunday, September 13, 2009

The Rivals

We saw an excellent production of The Rivals, by James Sheridan, at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin.

Sheridan wrote it at age 23.

This is the play which features the famous Mrs. Malaprop, the woman who has a large vocabulary but whose tongue often produces the wrong word at the critical moment. One of her funniest lines of the night was:
He is the very pineapple of politeness!
"Pinnacle" was what she meant to say,
but somehow her intention went astray.

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