Word: cartoonish
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Turner is outstandingly insane as Bananas. Maintaining her last grip on reality, she stumbles about the set trying to sabotage Bunny's plans. Bunny, played to comically cartoonish proportions by Trachta, is so caught up in the world of movies that she hardly notices the world of reality. The juxtaposition of these two fine performances is absurdly wonderful, as when Bunny indignantly interrupts Bananas' comparison of electric shock therapy to a concentration camp oven to describe "Doris Day's Night of Terror," when the starlet couldn't find her curlers anywhere...
...fact, Mallon says he never intended to be realistic about things. He changed building and course names to suit his plot and intentionally made his characters "cartoonish." And he says he was amused when he visited his publisher's office and saw the copy editor use a map of Harvard to assure that the characters did not cross imaginary intersections...
...Glove Seller's skirt with huge black gloves all over it, the primitive palette, the bales of flowers on hats, bodices, skirts. "What have I done?" he asked himself, yet he quickly decided that he had done just fine. "The shapes are so extravagant, but they are never cartoonish or boring," he says. "They say, 'Let's open up our temperaments and not be afraid of exaggeration...
...downs. Lee Thomsen plays the lead role of Elwood with a warm, welcoming smile frozen on his face from beginning to end, and while the smile effectively establishes beyond a doubt that Elwood is sweet and mild-mannered, his character lacks depth and soon grows cartoonish. If Elwood is to hold our attention, he also needs charisma...
...clear strength of the production is its excellent ensemble acting, and a few scenes are especially energized by individual performances. At the play's start, Pier Carlo Talenti creates a despicable, but hardly cartoonish, disciplinarian dad. And in the more leisurely paced second act, Eric Oleson is stirring as a father far out of touch with his daughter's "very complicated" generation...