The play darkens, naturally, for the Surinam act, but equally naturally it becomes predictable: the chain gangs, the brutal punishments, the odious English slave owners, though Mr Bandele keeps Behn's one good white, the Governor's agent Mr Trefry, to balance Orumba.
Mr. Vallas, working with a state-appointed school board made up of five members of the Connecticut business and education community, has already "significantly reduced a large budget gap, made significant leadership changes, reviewed all the schools and is laying out a new direction of reforms, " said Robert Trefry, the school board's current chairman.