What a Foul Mouth You Have, Grandma | ‘A Respectable Widow,’ About an Unusual Friendship
Laura Collins-HughesApril 13, 2014: The nervous young man has almost escaped from the funeral reception when the genteel widow thanks him for coming. It’s only decent to offer a kind word about her husband. “He was a really, really lovely old” — and here Jim Dick (Gavin Jon Wright) utters an obscenity, one that tends toward the very far end of the social-acceptability scale. Such is the mischievous setup of Douglas Maxwell’s sneakily thoughtful comedy of manners, A Respectable Widow Takes to Vulgarity. The sprightly half of a brisk double bill directed by Orla O’Loughlin at 59E59 Theaters, it’s presented by the Traverse Theater Company of Edinburgh as part of the Brits Off Broadway festival.
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