Word: fergus
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...large thefts have been reported since the gates were closed Fergus said, although he added that was to tell whether the closing responsible for the decline...
...acting is superb, particularly Innes-Fergus McDade as Mrs. Venable, the obsessed, patrician Southern matron, Jeannie Lindheim, as Catherine, is slightly less effective, perhaps because her character is less clearly drawn. The best of the minor characters is Mary Elizabeth Leach as Catherine's mother, a fluttery, weakminded old lady who only wants to keep things calm so that she can get part of Sebastian's estate...
...think such juvenile delights are all this play has to offer; it's also got its outright adolescent side. Hamlin directs the love affair between the French Queen Anne (Innes-Fergus McDade) and the British Duke of Buckingham (Robert McCleary)-"one of those streaks of fate that change the course of history" we are told-with a delicate seriousness that makes it all the more wonderfully ludicrous. Anne protests that she can't possibly love the Duke because they have "only had 3 meetings in the last 4 years," but minutes later ends up forking over to him jewels given...
...single fateful day, Fergus finds his past crowding in on him. Dead characters rise again as living hallucinations: his family, old priests, teachers, onetime loves, chance acquaintances, bygone neighbors, boyhood friends-even his boyhood self. Fergus had always justified all of his small sins for the capital gains of his novelistic art. This group of ghostly characters, convened like a kangaroo court, force him to weigh nothing less than the meaning of his life...
Such a judgment-day device is risky, to be sure. In the hands of a lesser writer it could be self-defeatingly simplistic; in Moore's hands it comes off convincingly triumphant. Fergus has recurring moments of flip inner torment: "God, how do other writers deal with these situations? How did, say, Faulkner manage to come out here time after time and take the money and run . . .? The thought of Faulkner steadied Fergus, for Faulkner had endured and prevailed. ... If Faulkner started seeing his dead parents first thing in the morning, he would settle right in and make...