Word: efron
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...refreshing breath of foppery comes from Lord Brounker (Mike Efron). An envoy to the King, he brings both good and bad news to Sir John. Fabulously beribboned in pink, Brounker is a starlet who wags his opulence in the face of the sick and the desperate. Literally a pink triangle, his effeminate manner and costuming furnish a witty reminder of the politics of our own age. Efron brings just the right delicate edge to make his performance stand...
...Mike Efron plays Tanner, the lovelorn cyborg who knows too much. His scenes with Elaine are particularly funny. Weiner has a real talent for parodying the strained relationship between the sexes...
...Efron's sense of comic timing really helps. Several lines which might have been marginally funny end up hilarious. At one point, Tanner tells Elaine, "I just want to be pals...plus a little extra...
...stark but durable set (designed by Travis) reflects the simple strength of characters like John Proctor (Michael Efron), who is turned into an enemy of the state, fighting charges of conspiring with Satan. He is clearly innocent but the lies build up against him. Out of personal vengeance, his former lover Abigail Williams (Jessica Walling) implicates him as a channeler in devils. She has begun an elaborate lie to save herself from the same charges she lodges against others...
...production's heart lies the consistently solid portrayals of Miller's panoply of good and evil. Most notable is Efron's sturdy but tainted Proctor whose one mistake returns to undo him during the witch trials months after his crime. The utter insanity of the proceedings culminates with a confession, the only legitimate one lodged in the court in months, and it proves to seal his fate. Meanwhile the perjury of others not only protects them but esteems them in the eyes of the court. Efron's simmering outrage underlines the impotent justice of Judge Danforth (Richard Gardner...