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...proficient cast was largely responsible for the play's success in making an Elizabethan tragedy accessible to modern audiences. Most of the play rested on the performance of Brett Egan '99, who, decked in a leather jacket and silver pants, made an intense Coriolanus. Egan's job was not an easy one, given the complexity of his role: Coriolanus is a Roman general who returns from war to find himself adored by the people, but his popularity causes petty political jealousy among the consuls (Taya Weiss '99 and Ryan McCarthy '97), which leads to his banishment...
...Egan's performance took all of these troubling factors into account; his Coriolanus was neither purely good nor purely evil, so that the play became a tragedy about a flesh-and-blood human being rather than a superficial historical figure...
Weiss and McCarthy revelled in their roles as the dastardly consuls, sneaking around the stage in dirty, gaudy orange suits while manipulating the people of Rome. They offered a severely satirical portrait of political corruption. Zimmet's performance as Volumnia, Coriolanus' mother, matched Egan's in intensity. Zimmet proved extremely capable of fleshing out her character's witty lines, as well as her questionable relationship with Coriolanus...
...Lives of Superheroes" is an unusual romantic comedy that chronicles a blind date set up by a psychiatrist between two of his patients. Standing alone in his living room, in his guy-at-home uniform of worn jeans, flannel shirt and socked feet, Michael (David Egan) likes to imagine himself lecturing at Carnegie Hall on the sex lives of superheroes. Eleanor (Abigail Gray) likes to rewrite love stories into tragedies--"Or, if they're already tragic but in a really noble way, I rewrite 'em so they're squalid and bitter." What's keeping this perfect pair apart? Only Michael...
...Egan does make a few missteps. In Why China? and the title story, she dabbles in a world of fallen bond traders, photographers and fashion models with names like Vesuvi and Anouschka. Their problems, at least as detailed here, cannot be taken seriously. Egan needs to leave these folks to Darren Star--she's too talented a writer to go slumming on Central Park West...