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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...
Among the minor characters, Julius Baker(a.k.a. John Brown) is worth watching out for.Played by Thomas Derrah, he portrays to perfectiona wimp with a social conscience. He is a walkingcontradiction, unable to reconcile his need to"affirm his manhood" with his belief in theequality of the sexes. Royal E. Miller, playingthe aviator Joey Percival is also riveting, as hetreads the fine line between gentleman and brute...
...PERFORMANCES which partake of Serban's subcamp shenanigans generally work the best. Thomas Derrah's Wong, a cringing and bitter waterseller, is another doozy in this actor's slow rise to the top of the ART company. In the last few seasons he has threatened to supplant John Bottoms place as The Best Thing About the ART. Sandra Shipley brings back fond memories of the Anna Mae Wong School of Oriental Acting as the avaricious...