Word: atienza
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whether as a result of Ivanov's age increase or not, one other key character is also played as too old. Count Shabelsky (Edward Atienza) is the 62-year-old uncle of Ivanov. Atienza plays him as a spry-minded, physically crumbling comedy figure. He gives up one attempt at seduction by falling exhausted into an armchair, resolving that dying would probably be a good thing as it required little energy. But by playing Shabelsky as a dodderer, Atienza lessens his dramatic impact. In Act III, when he is suddenly reminded of the duets he once played with Ivanov...
...enemy." As he rounds up the necessary votes for retrial, Eliot encounters the various motives-sly, cynical, stoic, self-serving, selflessly decent-that sway all would-be judges of men. How all-too-human such motives can be is suggested with delightfully doddering comic precision by Edward Atienza as an ancient Senior Fellow who believes that he is being bypassed on suspicion of senility. The retrial exonerates Howard, but the terms of reinstatement outrage the implacably" anti-Establishmentarian Laura (Howard rather implausibly leaves his wife at this point), and the fact of reinstatement disgusts the right-wing bursar, who abominates...