Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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I sat up close and got a good look at his mug. I had seen that face so many times before--hard, bitter, scurvy--all those things. I had seen his face on the bodies of night-time burglars who had been in prison for at least ten years. Robert...
ACTING is an if-then proposition. To create a character an actor asks, "If I am Hamlet and I discover that my uncle killed my father, then how will I react?" Unfortunately, the actors and director at Leverett House do not use sufficient imagination and, understandably, have not known enough...
This is funny enough; but the author's peculiar animus against his character pushes the mockery one sentence too far: "He now had secret hopes that she would become an alcoholic so that he could boast about her capacity. . . ." Unfunny, because unbelievable. The reader begins to be uneasy; why...
So the book goes: a series of clever and too-clever points scored against a character too unsubstantial to require more than a moment's wry smile. William has a daughter. Naturally she is dull and sniveling; of course she hates his bedtime stories; inevitably she becomes a kleptomaniac...
The major difficulty with the play is that the central character, who supposedly takes up where Mother Courage left off, is miscast. Emme Davidson is simply too healthy for the role. Wrapped in black, reclining on a couch, and sentenced to deliver her lines in a self-righteous singsong, she...