Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Anyway, Hieronymous, the main character, is a movie star, writer, and every other kind of icon, who, at the beginning of the movie and sporadically throughout, is shown unreeling the rushes of a film autobiography (by chapters) in front of his grandmother and children. He is forty while this is...
For that matter, there is not enough of her in the film. Once or twice I got the feeling they had pro-rated her across the hour and forty-seven minutes. She could have been a great character because many people right now are looking for something like her. But...
THESE skeletons, the stuff of thirties dramas and fifties movies, are not the first time installed in the flesh of a Harvard play. Others with similar concerns have for all their efforts wrought neither more nor less than soap opera. But Mr. Bloch knows how to put dialogue together, not...
It remains to acknowledge that several competent performances are not sufficient to turn this craftsmanlike play into a craftsmanlike production. One suspects Marcy Schuck of being a versatile actress when she appears first as Libby, the roommate, and the suspicion is confirmed when she returns as Mrs. Fern, the mother...
While Band is about (in the words of one character) "six tired screaming fairy queens and one anxious queer" at a birthday party, the play neither apologizes for the homosexual nor preaches about his plight in an heterosexual world. Rather, playwright Crowley sucks us into a grimly realistic slice of...