Word: bearingã
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Dates: during 2005-2005
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Boas portrays Bearing??s intensity and anguish, stressing the hostile, hubristic, and threatened side of her personality, a choice that is in keeping with the script but also somewhat alienating for audiences. Her medical counterparts, Dr. Kelekian (John D. Boller) and Dr. Posner (Lenny M. Braman, HLS ’05) are brisk and impersonal. Posner is slightly warmer than Bearing yet less self-aware; unlike Bearing, has no idea that he should be more sympathetic, even as he describes his patient as “very unresponsive” on a clipboard before realizing that said patient...
...sympathetic nurse (Kristen Smeltzer) named Susan and a former professor of Dr. Bearing, her sole visitor (Elizabeth K. Mahoney ‘05) inject poignancy into the play with tiny gestures. In fact, Susan rubs the unconscious Bearing??s hands with lotion, while her visitor Dr. Ashford kisses the dead woman on the forehead, performing gestures that with their naturalism avoid seeming emotionally manipulative...
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