Word: comical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Having Newbury Comics as a neighbor has helped as well, Wali says. Many avid comic book readers, who are usually also sci-fi fans, make a bee-line straight to Man from Atlantis, Spider-Mans and Batmans in hand...
...tribute to the skill and obvious enthusiasm of the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players that The Mikado can still deliver an evening of comic entertainment that rivals a feature film or an experiment at the Loeb...
...cast is charged with the delicate task of combining strong vocal ability with an equally strong mastery of comic delivery. They don't always succeed, but the production flies when they...
...Mark Fish), inject a sinister tough into their otherwise straight-forward characters, rather complacently consigning a poor maiden to eternal shame. Don Pedro's brother, Don John (Ian Lithgow), on the other hand, is interpreted as a buffoon. He is a Peter Ustinov-style villain, bumbling and ineffectual. The comic actors take the Shakespearean "rude mechanical" to the limit. Dogberry and Verges (Tom Giordano) revel in the slapstick. So, too, do Borachio and Conrade--at times at the expense of the darker, more thoughtful side of the play...
...that is more a criticism of the direction than the acting. The acting is forceful and impressive throughout; but it is directed toward the comic aspect of the play, losing much of its significance in the long run. The production is consistently funny, but this is a simplistic interpretation of the play...