Word: derrah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...play opens in a semi-private hospital room--or so it seems; in this play, no one can be too certain of anything. As patients Jeremy Geidt and Thomas Derrah are alternately confused, comforted, and terrified by a stream of mind-bending loonies on the loose from a neighboring psychiatric ward known as (what else) the Day Room, it becomes clear that nothing whatsoever is as clear as it seems...
...vets Jeremy Geidt (as the Machiavellian party animal Dr. Atmos) and Thomas Derrah (metamorphosed by terrific make-up into the knife wielding Latin chucklehead Boupacha) turn in some outstanding acting in the Grand Old Style. This is particularly impressive considering that they are spouting dialogue that sounds like it was written by Nietzsche and Bernard Shaw after a tankard of Johnnie Walker, a few lines of coke, and several stale pizzas were consumed between them...
Written by the 18th-century playwright Carlo Gozzi, The King Stag is the story of the king of Seredippo, Deramo (Thomas Derrah), who is searching for the woman who will love him for himself and become his deserving queen. With the aid of an animate Buddha statue, Deramo screens all his prospective brides for their honesty...
...those wise enough never to have read Love's Labour's Lost, behold Shakespeare's least complicated plot: King Ferdinand of Navarre (Thomas Derrah) has secluded himself in a private retreat, where for three years he has vowed he and his three attendants shall lead a virtuous life (sans dames). But love will find a way, this time from a visit of state by the beauteous Princess of France (Cherry Jones) and her ladies-in-waiting. Quicker than you can say "voulez-vous coucher avec moi" the king and his nobleman have discarded their celibacy like last year's underwear...
...During a scene in which the love-smitten Spaniards spy on each other mooning over their loved one's virtues, only Ben Evett crosses the line into the merely silly. The foursome fare much better disguised as dancing Cossacks, taking their roles a little less seriously. Thomas Derrah stuffs King Ferdinand's shirt full enough to make his vow seem like an everyday stunt. Jones, as the Princess, is unable to cut as distinctive a swath, and of her attendants, only Laurie Gallucio appears as a likely candidate for love at first sight...