August 25, 2009 — The Peterborough Players in Peterborough, New Hampshire, off the beaten path in the former Hadley farm, has maintained a consistently high level of talent, production, direction and stagecraft. Well-known actor James Whitmore, who passed away earlier this year at age 87, was a mainstay at Peterborough, appearing as recently as last year as the stage manager in Thornton Wilder's "Our Town." His son, James Whitmore, Jr., an equally excellent actor, appeared in this evening's performance of "Heartbreak House" by George Bernard Shaw. The entire cast was superb in this long play, three hours with two intermissions. But the time flew in this excellent production of Shaw's witty, sometimes hilarious, sometimes poignant story of Britain's affluent but shallow society at the beginning of World War I. I thorooughly enjoyed it, and while there I made a reservation for the Players' next production, "Copenhagen."
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