“Vanity Fair”—Comedy Exposes Elite Conspiracy, at ACT, S.F.
Kate Hamill’s Social Climber Keeps on Falling Down by Carly Van Liere & Barry David Horwitz Adapting William Thackeray’s vast Victorian novel Vanity Fair, playwright Kate Hamill ridicules the self-serving rituals of the snobbish English upper-crust. She portrays the elite in clownish, flamboyant style and farcical staging. Male actors throw on comical Victorian dresses…