Although most of our present day theater dishes out true-to-life drama, audiences can still gobble with relish a play of exaggerated style like Bernard Shaw’s "Misalliance," playing this week at Cincinnati’s Cox Theater. In these exquisite productions, more popular at an earlier date, spectators, instead of peeking into someone's three-walled private chamber, are pulled into an ever-shoving world in which actors talk as people never do, throw their bodies about as people never do, and make themselves thoroughly shocking but always endearing as most people may like to but never do. At all times, the audience knows this is make-believe and this is fun. This, too, is "Misalliance..."

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