Many Mansions (by Jules Eckert Goodman and Eckert Goodman; produced by Many Mansions Inc.). Some bad plays, like tortoises, protect themselves by withdrawing everythingbeginning, ending, and legs to stand onunder a shell of unassailable convention. Many Mansions' armor platethe Churchdoes not succeed altogether in fending criticism from its vulnerabilities: its stiff dialogue, thin ideas, creaking earnestness. Nevertheless, the play's carapacious subject will probably save it from instant death.
In Scene I, a curly-haired youngster (Alexander Kirkland) gives up sweetheart and golf clubs when off-stage voices, quoting scripture, call him to the Church's...
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