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...stereotype of the stiff-upper-lip Brit, unflappable in the face of crisis, but there's not a hint of condescension or satire. Yes, the young commander of the company, the competent, hard-drinking Stanhope (Hugh Dancy, the Brit heartthrob who's a standout in a cast of mostly Americans), lets slip a few bitterly sarcastic words about the general who has ordered the unnecessary raid. But no antiwar playwright could have written the delicate scene in which Stanhope tries to buck up, without shaming, a cowardly officer who is faking illness to avoid battle: "Supposing the worst happened--supposing...
Political life has been unsettling too. Software failures and gaffes committed by the city's election commission bollixed last Nov. 7's election. The upshot: hundreds of perplexed and angry voters couldn't cast ballots. In January, days after moving into the Governor's office, the ever smiling Bill Ritter--a Democrat, of all things--stood accused of reneging on a campaign pledge, socking union leaders by vetoing a bill that would have made it easier to organize workers...
...longer, and his clothes have returned to a neon hue reminiscent of his pre-show days.Last week, the last bits of glitter finally hit the floor. Dern fulfilled his final press obligations in Los Angeles, and attended a wrap party in Las Vegas with the rest of his former cast mates...minus one. “Cecille actually decided to boycott,” Dern says.Unfortunately for Dern, it would seem that Gahr isn’t the only woman with whom he’s fallen out of favor.“JennyLee’s dating Frankie Muniz...
...communicating with someone, when the audience is engaged and you’re responding to them in the process.” Cutmore-Scott wanted to experiment in “Fall” by combining two forms of theater. Throughout the play, each of the four cast members (Cutmore-Scott, Sophie C. Kargman ’08, Zachary B.S. Sniderman ’09, and Simon J. Williams ’09) portrays different characters, transitioning from soliloquies addressed directly to the audience to more traditional cinematic scenes, all the while using unconventional improvisational techniques. “There...
...While the theatrical side of the HPT is exclusively male, there is a significant female presence in the organization. Kruger views the restrictions on females in the cast not as a matter of exclusion, but rather of practicality. The HPT’s annual show, to her, is a unique product—one that she is proud to have helped promote for the past four years...