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Just the contemplation of punishment for Kelso was sufficient for his supporters to insist that he had suffered enough. One reason for the surprising lack of sympathy in the U.S. for the American student Michael Fay after he was sentenced to be caned in Singapore is the increasing recognition that...
Little by little the maddening effect of lies delivered with perfect sincerity works on the audience, most notable the women who repeatedly groaned in front of me. Proctor has no way to disprove the charges and no way to undo the defamation. He is like the accused who appear in...
Travis elucidates Miller's central conflict, that between social standards and rights of the individual. On the toughest and touchiest of legal ground, accused is pitted against accuser in a private realm where testimony is merely personal, and a victim's deposition is easily manipulated and abused without corroboration. Even...
At the production's heart lies the consistently solid portrayals of Miller's panoply of good and evil. Most notable is Efron's sturdy but tainted Proctor whose one mistake returns to undo him during the witch trials months after his crime. The utter insanity of the proceedings culminates with...
The rest is more ordinary. Rigg is wonderful in quiet moments but awkward in striving for the unchained melodrama that Zoe Caldwell achieved in a 1982 revival. The balance of the cast, also from London, is workmanlike, save for Nuala Willis, whose keening songs redeem that most archaic of theatrical...