Word: derrah
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Amidst the intensity of Camp's performance, some of the minor characters are obscured. The traitorous trio of Cambridge (Michael Janes), Scroop (Randall Jaynes) and Grey (James Framer) seem particularly flimsy. For the most part, supporting performances are strong. The clown Pistol (Ben Halley) and the wimp Fluellen (Thomas Derrah) are able to grab the audience's attention. Lenore Chaix, as Princess Katherine of France, is as voluptuous, coy and well, French, as any king could hope...
Jane Nichols' direction, with the undoubtedly invaluable aid of stunt choreography by Thomas Derrah, keeps the staging under control while allowing the cast to unleash the script's zaniness...
Instead of letting himself be remembered for his great comedy, Martin has taken on the tough project of writing a quasi-compendious retrospective of scientific and artistic thought since 1904. In Martin's debut as a playwright, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Albert Einstein (played by Thomas Derrah) shows up at the famous Montmartre bohemian artists' hang-out the Lapin Agile. While working out theorems and waiting for his date to show up, Einstein meets Picasso (Bill Camp) who stumbles in hoping to be noticed and admired. At first distant and confrontational, the two great minds turn their sparring into...
...other characters are similarly frustrated with the gaps between words and reality. When Julian Baker (Thomas Derrah), the socialist son of Tarleton's old mistress, arrives and tries to kill Tarleton, he first tries to justify the murder in true bourgeois fashion, saying he's avenging his mother's "ruin...
...when this sounds unconvincing, he switches to socialism. Baker's ideology, however, is only a mask for his real motive, frustration at the unfulfilling existence of a lower-middle-class office worker. Thomas Derrah skillfully portrays Baker as a sweaty-palmed nebbish in a cheap brown suit, using the borrowed finery of sophisticated Marxist rhetoric to disguise his feelings of inferiority...