Word: cowardly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Director Ed Berman moves the evening along with stopwatch precision. Because of his gift for parody and incessant wordplay, Stoppard's own affinity may be not so much with Wilde and Coward as with S.J. Perelman, a writer whom he greatly admires...
Gilmore repeated his earlier charge that Governor Calvin Rampton was a "moral coward" for staying his execution last month. As for the others who wanted to speak in his defense-the witnesses at the hearing included a right-to-life housewife and a vociferous representative of the Citizens Against Pornography and Other Crimes Committee -Gilmore was equally blunt: "All I have to say to all of them-the rabbis, the priests, the A.C.L.U.-I'd like them to butt out. It's my life and my death...
...auditioning for the role of Amanda Prynne in the Middlebury College production of Private Lives, one coed had something of an edge. After all. Amanda Plummer had been named for Noel Coward's histrionic heroine 19 years earlier by Mother Tammy Grimes and Father Christopher Plummer. What is more, Tammy herself had won a 1970 Tony Award in the same role on Broadway. "I had seen my mum do the part many times, and I liked the way she did it," allowed Amanda, who invited her parents to Vermont to catch her college stage debut. Stage Mother Tammy gave...
...material, will ransack his memoirs for the better parts of the three plays (The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry IV, Parts I and II) in which he will appear as his roistering self. The ungrateful Shakespeare cast sturdy Falstaff as a buffoon instead of a wit, and a coward instead of a discreetly valorous realist. There were good explanations (ignored by Shakespeare) for each of his acts of apparent cowardice. Says Falstaff. Naturally a fighter of his experience and ferocity could have vanquished the disguised Prince Hal, when Hal stole his loot from him after the highway robbery lark...
Private Lives, Noel Coward's tremendously funny play about what might happen when you run into your exspouse on a balcony during your honeymoon with your current spouse, is playing at the Lyric Stage, 54 Charles St., Boston. Performances are Thursday through Sunday at 8 p.m. with a Sunday matinee at 3 p.mn...