Word: characterizations
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The play's other three characters--Chick Boyle,Doc Porter and Barnette Lloyd--provide enoughbalance to allow the audience to step away fromthe sisters' tragedies, and enough personal pathosto keep the plotline smooth. Marisa Chandler '99was perfect as self-absorbed, superficial Chick.Chandler walked tall and wore the kind of smirkycondescension...
Morgan Evans, the protagonist of the play, was acted with great skill by first-year Mwashuma Kamata Nyatta, a native of Nairobi, Kenya. Evans--an out-of-place scholar in the mining town--loves to learn, yet is not entirely able to tear himself away from other hobbies such as...
Bessie Watty started out as an equally humorous character, constantly whining and eating sweets, but she became more serious as the show progressed. Smith did an outstanding job of portraying her character's development from a silly, flirtatious young girl to a vengeful, immoral harlot, a woman who was not...
Another very important character who changes throughout the course of the play is Miss Ronberry, played with much elegance by Catherine Gowl. Miss Ronberry is able to accept her status as a spinster by the end of the show, although in the beginning she desperately seeks a husband, flirting with...
If it sounds confusing, it is. Not many novels open with two people with the same name, as Wide Open does with two Ronnies: the Ronny without the big toes and Nathan's brother. Even fewer rename a main character some way into the text, as happens when Nathan's...