Word: comic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these intrigues are played out in separate scenes, each featuring a different pair of characters. This device focuses the attention of the audience on the characters on stage, allowing every detail of Shanley's carefully constructed comic situations to come across. The cast luxuriates in the limelight, and makes full use of it to exhibit their comic ability. Punchlines are delivered with precision, and no gesture is lost on the audience...
...four obviously maladjusted individuals, all of whom are too grasping and unscrupulous to be endearing in any way, provides for an entertaining clash of personalities. At the same time, one cannot help but respect the characters for their passion and intensity. There is a certain sense of comic pathos to them; they are all, as characterized by Bradley, "unlicked cubs," which is why they are all in show business...
Does God exist? Is life really meaningless? Woody Allen ponders some of the deepest philosophical questions of all time in his "God (a play)." While he doesn't provide any answers, Allen does present a comic debate on the meaning of the universe...
Every character in the production performs a difficult dual role--that of both dancer and actor. Helena (Christina Elida Salerno) in particular does a spectacular job, her face and movements displaying the comical screams and melodramatic gasps that are not permitted to leave her lips as both Lysander (Alexander Srb) and Demetrius (Gino DiMarco) pursue her. Lysander and his true love, Hermia (Marjorie Grundvig), create a lovely image of passionate lovers fleeing from their confining world. The four "Rustics"--Bottom and his crew--deliver perfectly timed comic relief, and the royal couple of Titania (Natasha Akhmarova) and Oberon (Laszlo Berdo...
Amendola in particular takes what seems an immutably comic character, so caught up in her moral strictures she has not sense enough to see her husband's basic good will, and freights Lady Windemere with melancholy. Her lines make her seem flighty and naive, but Amendola spaces them, pausing between delivery so that rather meaningless observations lilt in her mouth with undo contemplation. From her opening scenes with Lord Darlington, one expects a tragic conclusion based simply on Amendola's tone of voice...