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...Janus, 42, and his wife and business partner Renata, 40, two Utah transplants from Toronto, telecommute from a mountain house and, for about 100 days a year, from the cabin of their 36-ft. Catalina sailboat, the Miss Behaving III, on the Great Salt Lake. A consultant with a contract to distribute high-end data communications systems for Motorola's Codex Corp., Janus says that "the boat's especially nice during the heavy winter snows. Or if there's a great sunset on a Sunday evening, I can just stay on board until Monday morning." It is also as useful...
...also funny. The character pick at each other endlessly, and argue over opera in unbelievably petty detail. They disparage various divas ("That Greek mezzo with the hair on her chest") and other opera buffs ("[Renata Tebaldi fans] are a mean little bunch") and occasionally show traces of real emotion. The two actors negotiate nicely their characters' swings between sarcasm and genuine despair...
...Harvard right now, and he's in Saudi Arabia. It's not fair," Renata J. Ferrari '94 said of a friend in the Middle East...
Hopkin's Huml is not a man of great introspection. As Dr. Balcar (Lyra O. Barrera) says of Pazook, "He doesn't know what's going on inside him." He is most chipper when he abuses his wife, Vlasta (Forbes), his mistress, Renata (Bina Martin), or his secretary, Blanka (Magda Hernandez). Witness the scene when, without a flinch or trace of anger, he asks Vlasta, "Will you stop speaking for all womankind and see about starting dinner...
...womankind to speak for Vlasta. Much of the humor of the work lies in Havel's recycling women's dialogue. The playwright has Huml's wife and mistress share catty, stereotypical lines. Forbes is a little flat as Vlasta, but Martin displays some nice comic timing as Renata...