Word: actioner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rich, Asians, white trash, Hispanics, Muslims, foreigners, students, and basically everyone else who doesn't write for the Onion. But I wonder what he would think about a recent Onion articles like "Professors confirm binge drinking is fun" and "Wellesley no longer able to advertise 'hot all-girl action, all the time' on its website...
...Richard (Monteleoni) crouches in an eerie green light in the center of the stage and delivers the difficult "I shall prove myself a villain" soliloquy with a brilliant sense of introverted evil. The first Richard, the so-called Master of Ceremonies, hobbles around the stage in a whirlwind of action, murdering his way to the English throne. Monteleoni's performance is particularly pointed during Richard's outrageous, paradoxical, yet effective, seduction of Lady Anne (Amy Piper '99), who plays her role with convincing passion, reacting to the death of her husband at the hands of Richard...
There is a momentary slump in the action during the performance of the second Richard, although this is not entirely the fault of Echeverria. Although she lacks the pervasive intensity of Monteleoni, she is perhaps the most fundamentally sound and cautiously precise Richard. The conflict between Richard and Margaret (Nora Zimmett) is nicely enacted, as Echeverria's chilling calmness in the face of Zimmett's unrestrained horror, fear and hatred subtly foreshadows Richard's eventual insanity...
...While a clever idea, interesting because it gives the audience the opportunity to see three different actors' interpretations of the same character, this device is, in the end, mostly disjointed. Clarke best unifies the play with his presence, while the first two Richards were somewhat more detached from the action...
...most successful innovation was the set. Cocoa-shell mulch covered the floor in a stadium-style stage, with seating on both sides. While at times it was difficult to see with an actor standing directly in front of the seating and facing the action, overall it was a very effective use of space and an impressive feat for the actors to be able to maintain contact with an audience that was on both sides of them...