High points of the comedy were moments of quasi-slapstick humor, outrageous emotional outbursts and the quips of narrative directed straight at the audience. Barton Bund directed the second production, The Rainbow, a modern adaptation of D. H. Lawrence s 1915 classic and controversial novel of the same name. Bund said the script was compressed and combined with other works such as Lawrence s Women in Love and Samuel Taylor Coleridge s Christabel. Boy goes to war in India. Girl takes a mistress.
Girl fails miserably.
Boy returns home on leave from India. Boy proposes marriage. Girl rejects his offer. Boy returns to India. Girl wants him back.