A Pair Of Spectacles

Director's notes 
Our 2012 -2013 season opens with another play by Sidney Grundy, the indefatigable Victorian playwright who celebrated the manners and mores of the English middle class by stealing and translating French and German comedies into English and publishing them as his own.
In spite of this thievery, Grundy managed successfully to entertain his English audiences while skillfully satirizing their upwardly mobile pretensions and love of money...In this play, the subject is greed and its' effect on two brothers; one, an easy-going, generous, kind-hearted soul [Steve Furster as Ben Goldfinch] is confronted by his miserly, mill-owning millionaire sibling [Harry Jordan as Gregory Goldfinch] who starves his own son into submission, and almost destroys his brother's household.
  Fate intervenes quite magically, and when the warm-hearted Ben Goldfinch loses his own spectacles and is forced to use those of his brother, he begins to see the world through his brother's eyes with comical (and surprising) results. (V. Robertson, 2012)