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...play follows a party that’s taking place before a wedding, which the mother of the bride is holding in her Boston apartment, and she’s invited all her childhood friends. It’s a volatile mix of personalities, and hilarious chaos ensues. My character??s name is Val, short for Valerie. She’s the younger sister of the bride, exasperated at her mother and trying to keep things in control, but they spiral out of control anyway.' As “Reception” enters its last week before production...
Faust navigates this moral maelstrom with Olympian equanimity. While most of us would be drawn to harsh condemnation, Faust’s quest is to understand. The balance she shows surely reflects both her values as a historian and her character??this is good for the University...
...Nip/Tuck,” the native Aussie’s new film, “Premonition,” finds him in a surprisingly tame role. MIDDLE OF THE ROAD Although “Premonition” is meant to be a psychological thriller, McMahon’s character??Jim Hanson—is anything but a thriller of a man. A caring husband and loving father of two charming daughters, Jim embodies—as McMahon describes in a phone interview with the Crimson—a “middle-American mainstream lifestyle...
...Pterodactyls” is the type of play where a character??s main concern upon hearing that a friend’s child has cancer is how it will affect the seating arrangements at a wedding. It’s a show in which the best place to put a dead friend is out on the terrace for the rest of the winter, until the ground is soft enough to bury him. While this could be taken as a disclaimer, it will hopefully function as an enticement, because while “Pterodactyls” is jarring...
...Jaws”: random characters are introduced, impending doom is certain, and goosebumps shoot down the back of your neck and arms. Instead of a cello increasing in bow strokes to mark the striking moment though, Fincher’s strategy is to calm viewers with humor and the character??s own confusion, before shocking them with a gruesome death. Gyllenhaal has wonderful on-screen chemistry with co-stars Robert Downey Jr., who plays a crime reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, and Mark Ruffalo, who plays a detective. Their repartee creates a deceptively funny film. The comedy...