Word: arvine
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...cannot be praised singly or too highly. All are Americans, yet their English accents are so authentic that they seem to have been flown in by BOAC. Director Michael Rudman has elicited ensemble acting from this group that rates close to perfect. As for the Long Wharfs artistic director Arvin Brown, he knows viscerally what is good in drama, and season after season he presents it with honesty, professionalism and élan vital. Lincoln Center should beg, borrow or skyjack...
...attempt such a difficult play is a vast credit to the Long Wharf Theater and its intrepid artistic director Arvin Brown. To marshal an American cast and make it seem British to the marrow is an equal triumph for Director Barry Davis and his admirable players. They have honored a playwright who is an impressive successor to Osborne and Pinter. Only rarely does one encounter a deep, possibly a noble soul who regards the eclipse of his civilization and his folk as direr than his own death...
...Neills were a family of intimate and obsessive intensity, and Director Arvin Brown and his players never let us forget it. The dialogue is the music of doom as if played by a great string quartet. Years after the play had been written, Carlotta O'Neill recalled that "when he started Long Day's Journey, it w.as a most strange experience to watch that man being tortured every day by his own writing. His eyes would be all red, and he looked ten years older than when he went in in the morning. I think he felt freer...
...drama full of the raw, roiling energy of life. The story of the Carney clan, moving in on a brother who has tried to flee their world of animal instinct, is full of the rude poetry of the commonplace. The performances are labors of love and skill, and Arvin Brown's direction is flawless...
...drama full of the raw, roiling energy of life. The story of the Carney clan, moving in on a brother who has tried to flee their world of animal instinct, is full of the rude poetry of the commonplace. The performances are labors of love and skill, and Arvin Brown's direction is flawless...