CAST

Doris Gow.......Rita Carratello
Elsie Gow......Deborah Curtis
Mrs. Rackett.....Neva Hahns
Henry Gow.....Richard Saylor

Directed by
Marcia Gambrell Hovick

REVIEW

Noel Coward wrote "Fumed Oak," which he described as "an unpleasant comedy," in 1936. . . Almost a soap opera in the working out of the dynamics of the relationship between a browbeaten mid-mannered husband, a domineering mean-spirited and cold wife, a nastily complaining mother-in-law and a selfish, sniveling teen-age daughter. . .

Rita Carratello was . . . in control and assured in her portrayal of an icily proper woman more interested in appearances than in the emotional needs of her family.

Nathalie Plotkin
Monterey County Herald