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...poignant scenes, the dialogue between Big Daddy and Brick is perhaps the most captivating. It is a perfect balance of two wholly different stories: The violent showdown between the two men who dominate both their family and the play, and the subtly tender heart-to-heart between father...
...birthday. They have just discovered that Big Daddy has cancer, and the children try to win Big Daddy’s favor in the hopes that they will inherit the plantation. Meanwhile, daughter-in-law Maggie (Alison Rich ’09) attempts to save her marriage to Brick (David J. Smolinsky ’11), who has been an alcoholic ever since the death of his best friend (Will D. Kehler...
Although there are only a few moments in which there is actually only one character on stage, the drama nevertheless centers around an individual performance. In Maggie and Brick’s first scene, Rich rattles off an impressive soliloquy. Brick lies listlessly on the bed and the relatives make a hullabaloo back stage, but Rich seems to be the only person in the theater. While Rich initially over-dramatizes her frustration, her character becomes increasingly real over the course of the play...
...characters. The two daughters-in-law, Maggie and Mae (Olivia A. Benowitz ’09), are comically catty, and Elyssa Jakim ’10 is exquisite in each of Big Mama’s various personas. She overbearingly clings to her husband, nauseatingly caresses her son Brick, and is alternately sweet and severe to her daughters-in-law. All the time, her nasal voice and fluttering motions create the perfect, crumbling image of the Southern plantation mistress...
...seems to be more a problem of blocking and technically-produced ambiance. Rather than a ghost who sporadically interrupts Brick’s consciousness, Skipper seems to be a sketchy stranger who just happens to pop into the plantation house from time to time and fondle Brick...