Word: casted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Once they do opening night, the cast thinks that they can take the easy road," Paulus says. "If you allow yourself to change things, you can make your product even better...
...whole mood of the play tends to center around the mercurial temperament of Hedda. This leaves the rest of the cast at her violent mercy. The pathetically weak Thea Elvstead (Susan Levine), who has become the new love interest of Hedda's old flame Eilert Lovborg (Josh Frost), becomes one of the key victims of her wrath. In a revealing scene between the two, Hedda curls Thea's mousy locks around her fingers and snarls: "Maybe I will burn off your hair...
Hedda seems to be convinced that everything she touches turns ridiculous and vile. Actually, the show suffers when Cate is out of reach. With few exceptions, the rest of the cast seems to dote on the wild fancies of the beautiful Hedda. They come to life with her fiery entrances and languish miserably in her absence...
...well as Marjorie Ingall, who plays the middle-aged next door neighbor. In a play where the word "costume" means jeans or a flower-patterned dress, it should not be surprising that the audience can almost see the powder falling from her grey hair. Though after working with this cast, one might expect her hair to fall...
...McCullers' Ballad of the Sad Cafe and warns her mother of its pernicious content. But Millie is saved by Alan, who tells the mother that the book is on the reading list for the modern novel course at his college. Alas, even the play's overt humor eludes the cast...