Word: charbonneau
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When I think of Edward Albee, I think of the psychological explorations of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. The first act of his last play, The Seascape, fulfills that generalization remarkably well. It opens with a married couple bickering. Charlie (John Beard) and Nancy (Nicole Charbonneau), just like the pair in Woolf--they are past middle age and frustrated by the stagnancy into which their lives have fallen. Nancy is devastated by it and Charlie is burdened by her insistence that he empathize with her misery. Soon another couple arrives whose own personal issues mirror and illuminate those...
...contrast in character between the two couples is exaggerated in performance. Charbonneau and Beard--as Nancy and Charlie--tend to put so much effort into their dispositions that they seem unrealistic. Nancy's sarcasm is so affected that it seems sincere, and Charlie's complacency is too noticeable to be the subtle characterization it ought to be. He looks quite like a little boy in adult's clothing, wearing shoes a little too big for his personality. Nancy instead has a little girl's saccharine, irritating voice inside a matronly visage. On the other hand, Leslie and Sarah--Kelleher...
...philosophy of the co-op is that differences are worked out through compromise until everyone is close to satisfied, Charbonneau said. Even if one person is unhappy, the co-op may make compromises or adjustments, he said...
...Wednesday night, students in the co-op ate a collection of several salads, including a garden salad, a tofu salad, a noodle salad and a fruit salad, Charbonneau said. Food in the co-op is generally bought from an organic grower...
...Many people that come over for dinner comment that it's much better food than they had in their Harvard dorms," Charbonneau said...