Word: gelber
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most part, Raphael elicits terrific performances from his no-holds-barred cast. Becker, Ocko, and Galland are all wonderfully loony tune and daffy in their roles, hamming it up to the hilt yet without excess. And Lindley, Logue and Linus Gelber are solid in their supporting roles as Erpingham sidekicks. The two best performances are those of Zelman and Gunn. In particular, Zelman plays Kenny with a hilarious bravado that energizes the entire show. It is in his scenes that The Erpingham Camp shifts into full farce flight...
...scenes with her, Linus Gelber, as Cadmos, the father of Agave and the founder of Thebes, has his most convincing moments. Indeed, these final moments of anguish do much to resurrect the drama as a whole...
Being on his own in Italy didn't convince Gelber that he could be satisfied with the uncertainties of the actor's life. He already knew that. Gelber's interests are diverse though. He wants to write and act and says jokingly that he's the only person he knows who wants to support himself as a writer by being an actor...
...Gelber has appeared in 21 shows at Harvard. Before college, he was perennially cast as the white rabbit in Alice in Wonderland. At five foot two inches, Gelber jokes "I'm under contract; whenever there is a production of Alice in Wonderland I play the white rabbit." Ironically, he discovered theater as a calling by being cast in a play where he was killed by a white bunny from outer space. That was sophomore year in The Paranormal Review...
While he's supporting himself as a writer by being an actor, Gelber says he's willing to support himself as an actor by being a bartender. "I don't see a job as an end in itself; I see it as a means to supporting a creative...