![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, we must wait to see how the visit will go, but whether or how much Monty will be able to accept Frieda is not that compelling a question for a two-hour play. So good is the scene where Monty has a toddler’s temper tantrum after bluntly confronting his mother about her actions that one wishes it were the whole play. The play, solidly directed by Ed Sherrin, takes place on a ranch near Taos, New Mexico, in 1939 during four days of a visit from Frieda’s now-grown son Monty Weekley (the exquisitely embarrassed Gareth Saxe), who achingly shows his little boy hurt late in the play. “I love to talk about sex,” says the still vital, somewhat stout redhead. ![]() The fact that her present lover, a younger Italian man named Angelo (played with broad comic strokes by Robert Cuccioli), also adores her also makes sense. As Frieda Lawrence in A Moon to Dance By, Thom Thomas’ rather repetitive biodrama at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, Jane Alexander has such vivacity and spark that you can see how 27 years earlier Freida’s sex appeal captivated the writer D.H. ![]()
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