Word: gierasch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...schoolmaster Holofernes (Stefan Gierasch), barefoot, bowlegged, and wearing a huge diaper and silver-rimmed glasses, is a middle-aged Gandhi with traces of a Bronx accent. His sidekick Nathaniel (Ken Parker) has trouble reciting without beating his right hand in time with his sing-song delivery...
...Stefan Gierasch brings warmth to the Duke of York, but swallows some of his words. Richard Mathews' Mowbray sputters and lacks resonance, and Rex Robbins' Northumberland is colorless throughout. Thomas Ruisinger makes an admirably intense Bishop of Carlisle, but he ought to know that the meter requires that "Hereford" be disyllabic, not trisyllabic. Of the women--who are peripheral in this play--Zoe Kamitses' Duchess of Gloucester remains in the memory for her one powerful scene in the first act. John Duffy's fanfares and Jennifer Tipton's lighting serve the play capably...
...Stefan Gierasch, as a brusque but sympathetic doctor, is a bright spot in the cast. He tells the little girl, who is matching him insult for insult. "Any more dancing like last night, kid, and your vena cava's gonna fall right out." It's the best line in the show...