Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THERE are mysteries aplenty in The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, but they are mysteries of character and not intrigue.
Our central character is Paul (William Converse-Roberts), a young, success-driven banker. We see him making connections at cocktail parties, bad-mouthing fellow-workers to his boss and jetting to exotic lands to work out deals. His significant other, Fran (Alice Manning), is just as stereotypical (but then, don...
Reluctant to impose his views on any of his actors, Altman chose to edit one character almost entirely out of the play in order to avoid criticizing the actor.
Also last year, Booth took pictures of the neighborhoods through which the Boston subway's Orange Line was recently extended, for an exhibit called Along the EL. Booth says he hoped to capture the ethnicity of the neighborhood, whose character would probably change in the future due to the destruction...
Without Hedda on stage, these characters seem to sink into ridiculousness. The passionate pleas of Frost's lovelorn Lovborg seem almost schoolboyish. Judge Brack, played by Nestor Davidson, fares little better. As the insidiously corrupt Brack, Davidson plays up his character with a tad too much joviality. His tendency to...