NEAPOLITAN COMEDY IS A CHARMER

From: The Boston Globe | Date: March 10, 1988| Author: Kevin Kelly, Globe Staff | Copyright information

SATURDAY, SUNDAY, MONDAY -- Play in three acts by Eduardo

de Filippo, directed by Jacques Cartier, sets by James

Leonard Joy, lighting by Riger L. Meeker, costumes by John

Falabella, produced by the Huntington Theater Company, at

the Boston University Theater, through March 27. Eduardo de Filippo's "Saturday, Sunday, Monday" is an amiable, heartfelt, Neapolitan comedy that has just about everything going for it including a certain amount ...

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