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...redeeming aspects of "The Secret Rapture" is Whalley-Kilmer's performance. She expresses the contradiction between Katherine's warped vision of the world and her ability to exude adamant sexuality. Juliet Stevenson interacts best with the other characters, though the script often presents her with unrealistic prerogatives and situations. Marion might have been the most believable character, but Penelope Wilton's performance suffers from her tendency to rely on hyperbole to express Marion's flaws...
...technical aspects of the production do little to assist the weak script. The stage is fully and flatly lit; the sets create neither an interesting space on the stage, nor a visual complement to the play's mood. The sound design, however, is very effective; the sparingly used piano music is appropriate but unobtrusive, and the subtle manner in which effects like a ticking clock are eased into the audience's consciousness is innovative and interesting...
...recent years -- evocations of the rural hill landscapes around his studio in Gaeta -- are formulaic and hark back to Dubuffet and, earlier, to Soutine's Ceret paintings. The phrases he writes on the canvas are place names and snatches of poetry, done in a faint cursive script that is always on the point of trailing off into illegibility; they suggest fatigue and forgetting. But the structure / of the paintings themselves, the placement of the marks on the big field, is energetic and often brilliant...
Unsurprisingly, their offspring Thor is emotionally fucked. He is a troublemaker who is prone to hiding in rooms and creating havoc. Miller flails himself about the stage with great delight. His jarring screams keep the crazy pace going even when there's a dry point in the script...
...rest of script would often go as follows: the opponent gets one or two good scoring chances and is able to convert, depriving Harvard of its hard-fought...