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...nipple and penis jokes, the wild cackling or the dopey foreign accents that keep the laughs coming? In Robin Williams' weekly audio show on audible.com it's all that and more. With his acrobatic voice as his only prop, the comic becomes instantly more likable...
...capture the soul of an age that has no soul? That was the task facing Bret Easton Ellis at the end of the '80s. For Ellis, the death of feeling among hip young urbanites was a criminal act. And so, in his black-comic tour de force novel American Psycho, Ellis pushed past parody into nightmare farce. He created, in his antihero Patrick Bateman, a moneyman with a true killer instinct: mergers and acquisitions become murders and executions. "I have all the characteristics of a human being," Patrick (Christian Bale) says in Mary Harron's handsome, icily funny film version...
...Cecily Cardew. Of the younger female interpretations, Lauren Waisbren gives the role of Cecily Cardew, Worthing's ward, a more ditzy than shrewd rendering, though her phrasing, timing and diction are all impeccable. As her mirrored comrade (and adversary, depending on the scene) Gwendolen, Jennifer Moxin puts her considerable comic vitality to fine work here in what is sometimes mildly bizarre exaggeration, sometimes farcical explosiveness. These two work particularly well together and they fashion Wilde's brilliant Act Two confrontation scene into what is one of the high points of the evening's entertainment. Another image that remains indelibly...
...their admirers, French and White take the play for some comic turns of their own. As Algernon, French is all dimples and craftily employed myopia thanks to a character who is the essence of flippancy and casual verve. White, on the other hand, is forced into an uneasy and far stuffier portrayal, which makes his comedic tasks that much more difficult. Fortunately, both these actors have the requisite skills that enable them to extract some of the heartiest laughter of the entire production...
...side characters are truly outstanding. Sol Kim '02-previously seen on the Harvard stage in the Lowell House Opera production of The Beggar's Opera-in the role of Dame Hannah, Rose's spinster Aunt, puts so much comic energy into her part that she lights up every scene in which she appears. Furthermore, it is easy to realize that Kim is enjoying herself on stage and having a great time as Hannah, allowing her to avoid succumbing to potential silliness, as sporadically happens to Karoun Demirjian '03 in playing the village lunatic, Mad Margaret (although it seems to have...