Word: delima
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...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 in my mind is that of Lady Bracknell (Sarah deLima) and her daughter Gwendolen making their first entrance like a battleship with a cruiser in its wake; identical knife-edge profiles at the same angle, the daughter a lesser double of her terrible Mamma. The dialogue in all its sharp cut-glass, epigrammatic brittleness is for the most part well...