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...production focuses on the events of two days in a boarding house by the sea. First on the scene are Meg (Karen MacDonald) and Petey (Terence Rigby), the old couple who own the boarding house. After they exchange a few pleasantries over breakfast, their longtime boarder Stanley (Thomas Derrah) comes down for breakfast—late, surly and increasingly violent...
Introduction to Acting with Thomas Derrah. He’s a very dynamic, hands-on teacher, and it’s not too common that you get to see you teacher perform. He was in last year’s production of Highway Ulysses at the A.R.T. It put things more into perspective with regard to acting as a career: what sort of talent and commitment are involved. On the stage you don’t have be beautiful to be an actor—sorry Tommy...
...modern Ulysses, Thomas Derrah does an admirable job with a multi-faceted and tormented character. His voice is raw and powerful, at once conveying the suffering of a man who has tasted death and the drive of a father to teach the lessons of life to his son. This man must in a single scene go from cunning and collected to deranged and paranoid...
...whole production is tinted with a dark thread of violence, mostly manifested in Ulysses himself, but clearly felt by everyone on stage as well as in the audience. Maintaining this theme is no easy task, and Derrah handles it with a firm and deep stoicism...
...Derrah acts the clown who knows what sadness is but refuses to be overwhelmed by it. He is not convinced that laughter is a medicine, but he knows that it’s at least a salve. It is something to help navigate through a terrible world, even if cannot make it better...