TWO FOR THE SEESAW Play in three acts by William Gibson, directed by Grey Cattell Johnson, set by Alison Ford, lighting by Randy Hertzman, costumes by Rick Kelly At: Gloucester Stage Company, through June 24 GLOUCESTER - If you can...

Byline: Rohan Preston; Staff Writer Life imitated art for actors Maggie Chestovich and Stephen Cartmell about a year and a half ago. Playing impetuous young lovers in Theatre de la Jeune Lune's limited national tour of "The Miser," the two fell hard...

Two for the Seesaw is a prime example of the type of playwriting and production that prevails with metropolitan audiences by clever accommodation to their standards of taste, interest, and value. It is clever rather than profound playwriting but it also exudes an air of wisdom, kindliness and truth of character that makes friends at the box office…. Interest never flags in this comedy of sentiment until we are being prepared for the anticlimactic resolution. The continuously moving action, varied wit...

William Gibson's The Seesaw Log … is a blow-by-blow, cut-by-cut account of an ordeal that occupied two years of the author's life and left him, at the end, financially enriched and spiritually depleted. In short, it is a success story. At the same time it is a study of defeat. In the course of a hundred and forty pages, the rugged-individualist theory of art, which regards the author's intentions as sacrosanct, is eroded and finally overwhelmed by the rugged collectivism of an in...

[Two for the Seesaw] is one of those simple, pleasant plays that obviously belong in the theatre, since they are almost always highly popular. They are the bestsellers of the contemporary stage. No one should cavil at their success. But, I confess with some reluctance, they interest me very little. The play's sentimental subject holds the seed of a serious theme: this makes it "respectable." A lawyer from Omaha has left his wife because he harbors the feeling that he had been "bo...