Word: everyman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addicted mother of Eugene O'Neil, and the aforementioned Anas Nin, played with delightfully French self-absorption by Karen MacDonald. Not to mention the entire cast of characters from The Brothers Karamazov, with Alyosha Karamazov (played with effective, i.e. not annoying, wholesomeness by Sean Dugan) serving as Durang's Everyman character in this absurdist romp...
Throughout the run, Schulz stuck to the theme first visited in that initial strip. Charlie was the Everyman who just couldn't get kites off the ground, footballs through the uprights or respect from his friends. We recognized his failures and sympathized with him because we had experienced many of the same failures in our own lives...
...Following the success of Saving Private Ryan, Hanks turns in yet another Oscar bid with his believable portrayal of the everyman, Paul Edgecomb. The model of fairness and discipline, Edgecomb is the ideal man to be charged with one of society's toughest responsibilities. As the caretaker of doomed criminals, his job requires him to grapple with death and justice on a daily basis, precepts that are often philosophically opposed. He suffers everything that a normal man suffers - pangs of conscience, doubts in the human capacity for good, and the occasional urinary tract infection. (When he scrambles into the bathroom...
...spotted a lot of confusion between the Remote Access control panel, the TCP/IP control panel and the AirPort extension. Such balkanized Internet responsibility doesn't seem right for a company aiming to build a computer for Everyman...
...What to look for: Certainly, the intensity of the questions the play asks. As Gidron says, the play is all about "responsibilit,", and the way that we "often fool ourselves about our role as the Everyman." And despite the play being set in '30s Nazi Germany, the play has "as many implications for today as back then." Look out too for the riotous German tunes, which lend a tone of absurdity to the dream-world of John Halder...