Word: claflins
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Erpingham (John Claflin) is the name of the director of a chain of British holiday camps, an upper crust, uptight version of Club Med. He is the Great Oppressor/Dictator/Imperialist, demanding religiously fanatic devotion and obeisance from his workers and campers while envisioning a world-spanding empire of holiday camps. He declares off-handedly that his campers don't have rights, only privileges--even food is a privilege...
...Only Claflin's performance was problematic. Though he was certainly solid and has good comic timing, his understated performance sometimes prevented scenes from reaching their full potential energy...
...first step is to transform the impious into raving maniacs. The Theban women have already become blood-thirsty maenads at the start of the play; Pentheus (John Claflin), the proud young king of Thebes, is gradually given a taste for women's clothing as well as for self-destruction...
This formulaic scenario is not the play's novelty. Instead, it's the running commentary given by two critics, John Claflin and Jamie McInnes. The two chat with one another about their own personal problems as well as the play, and eventually, when dramatic issues come to a head, enter the play itself to set things aright...
...difficult premise of the Winthrop House show, a drama-comedy written by Brian Friel. The public Gareth--Gar for short--is a quiet, unemotional guy who wonders whether his father will miss him when he leaves Ireland for Philadelphia. He was too shy to ask Senator Doogan (John Claflin) for the hand of his daughter (Laura Uyterhoeven). Now she's married to someone else...