Wilbur was a words-smith extraordinaire, and I have a special fondness for his writing. At a time when lesser poets were beating the drum for free-form modernism, he was quietly perfecting the formal approach with its intricate rhymes and traditional structures. All this served up with wit and elegance.
The director has moved people through the sequences with appropriate shifts of energy and enthusiasm, but she has missed some of the most relevant options in this play.