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...Jordan Lage) lose their four-year-old son, who is hit by a car after chasing his dog into the street. In one illustrative struggle, the couple gets into a scalding dispute over the dog, who has been sent to live with Becca’s mother, Nat (Maureen Anderman).The dog is getting fat, Howie says, but Becca refuses to have it in the house. Howie clings to the dog as though it will bring the boy back, and Lindsay-Abaire conveys to the audience that this dog represents the emptiness of Howie and Becca’s dead...
...painfully stiff anchorman Jim Dial on the TV sitcom Murphy Brown, makes this performance subtler and deeper and eschews the trademark grimaces of someone who has just smelled something foul. The action unfolds during a cocktail party where he meets, courts, wins and loses a woman (the incandescent Maureen Anderman) whom he knew three decades before. The youthful infatuation ended with her offering herself and his declining, not out of prudishness but from a lifelong premonition that something terrible was going to happen and from a courtly determination not to have anyone share his doom...
...than the first. Rarely have two actors so young and so full of animal magnetism played the two key roles Philip Anglim, best known for his work as John Merrick in The Elephant Man brings to his Macbeth the boundless energy of a fledgling Henry V. The shapely Maureen Anderman makes Lady Macbeth a hot-blooded sex symbol. One can visualize the pair being written up in the gossip columns as smart society's latest darlings and very much on the rise...
This sort of approach does have its drawbacks. The desolating pathos of madness is missing from Anderman's mad scene. Nothing in Anglim's countenance suggests that he has "supp'd full with horrors " But the political core of the play remains intact. Macbeth is a politician's tragedy. It is full of the cagey schemes and ruthless deeds by which men seek to attain and hold power, and of the cruel downfall which they court...
...accident immures Whiteside (Ellis Rabb) in an upper-middle-class home in a Midwestern backwater town. From his imperial wheelchair he plays an epigrammatic Nero to the hapless inhabitants. He forbids his hosts to use the telephone, tries to sabotage the love affair of his selfless secretary (Maureen Anderman), and makes his nurse rue the day that she first heard of Florence Nightingale...