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...several of the most telltale thematic passages, which stick out like neon signs on a deserted highway. For the most part, Carmichael handles these passages with ease, resisting the temptation to be preachy and melodramatic. Carmichael crafts an exceptional portrayal of Roma, the clean-cut "nice guy" whose smooth-talking is so smooth that he even takes in the audience, leaving them all the more crushed at his final betrayal. Carmichael displays an impressive range of emotions that protect his character from stagnancy. He becomes, in one sense, a key figure of opportunist temptation in the play - a devil swathed...
Unlike their characters, the actors do not compete for top slot. Each takes a calm but definite possession of the stage without eclipsing the other actors. Although their motivations lack sharpness and definition at times, the actors have done excellent work creating very real and complex characters whose interactions are made all the more absorbing by the intimacy of the Kronauer space...
...kind of cheap inspiration imparted by this excerpt from the weakest section of The Cure at Troy is perfect for earnest and boring lightweights like Doubletake Magazine which takes the same quote as its mantra but one would really expect more substance from Gordimer, whose fiction breathes with implacable moral force...
...antics of the orphans, most of whom are newcomers to the business, provides perfect comic relief to the sterile walls of the institution. Especially endearing are Curly, whose desperate attempts to be adopted results in his telling everyone who visited that he was "the best, really," and Fuzzy, whose illness forces him to live in a breathing dome...
...guide for this trip (and I do mean trip) through history and literature is the eminent 19th-century translator of Russian literature Constance Garnett, whose unrelenting Englishness (read: priggishness) has been a scourge to modern translators from Nabokov on. Fashioned by Durang as a kind of Charles Kinbote for the entire Western cannon, Garnett is as much a mangler of Russian literature as a scholar of it. (The Russian word for frustrated homosexual is Peter Tchaikovsky, she says). Played with unrelenting and downright hysterical formality by Thomas Derrah, Garnett becomes as loveable as she is overbearing. Listening to her roll...