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Which brings me to my next point: Elizabeth Hurley is a fairly well-known actress, and while not famous for her talent, after Austin Powers she could choose to make money wearing jeans and a T-shirt. What is she doing in this movie, with each costume putting progressively more...
The style echoes the fact that Rapp wrote Nocturne when he was reading Faulkner. Although the Son never lapses into an inchoate stream, his monologue is a form of self-flagellation reminiscent of The Sound and the Fury's Jason Compson. In Nocturne the monologue is lyrical, moving with the...
The weakest parts of the play occur when the Son lashes out in stock criticism of bourgeois society. When he flees to New York after the accident, he exults over his poverty and freedom in terms a college sophomore might use. Those moments do not do justice to the complexity...
Overall, though, Rapp presents us with a sympathetic and memorable character. This is Rapp's first major production, and moments of naivet and self-consciousness in the work show it. Fortunately his pinpoint accuracy with language makes it an aural delight. Expect much more, and much better, from Adam Rapp...
But for all the power of her husband, this production's Stephen Girard (Jesse M. Shapiro '01) does not come across as the richest and most powerful man in the fledging United States, nor does he appear to be the intimidating abuser of his trophy wife. Shapiro, originally the assistant...