The Village Voice, December 22nd, 2004
Aiming for style, director Mark Lamos can almost convince you that it equals substance
THE RIVALS
By Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Vivian Beaumont Theater
150 West 65th Street
212.239.6200
POLISHED JOKES
The Rivals is one of the best comedies ever written for absolutely no purpose, one of the rare instances of pure high spirits expressed in literature. Classically, comedy is aggressive; you expect to find anger, or at least moral indignation, behind it. But The Rivals is witty without being angry, unlike even the later Sheridan masterpiece with which it makes a matched pair, The School for ...
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