Word: glick
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...sure, Short also trots out his expected gallery of TV characters - the nerdy Ed Grimley, the old-codger songwriter Irving Cohen - and an ad-lib segment in which Short's most tiresome character, Jiminy Glick, does an interview with a surprise guest from the audience (Channing Frye of the New York Knicks the night I was there) nearly brings the show to a stop. For that matter, the whole self-referential, show-about-doing-a-show conceit (see The Drowsy Chaperone and off-Broadway's [Title of Show]) is in danger of becoming a clich?...
...pinpointing the appeal of “This is Our Youth” for today’s audiences. Barnett, a senior at Brandeis College, is traveling to Harvard to play Warren, a troubled and spineless teenager and one of the play’s three characters. Jason L. Glick, GSE ’05, also the director, plays Warren’s counterpart, Dennis, and Sarah E. Stein ’08 takes on the role of Jessica, a young woman who enters late in the play...
...Glick had seen “This is Our Youth” in England in the early 1990s, and it stuck with him. When he formed a drama society at the Graduate School of Education this fall, filling a drama dearth there, he realized he had a chance to direct the play...
...added incentive for audiences to visit the Pool Theater this weekend, Glick says with a smile, “We’ve added a little bit of our own stuff––that’s going to be the interesting part––the secret stuff...
Frayn's technique is a fluid mix of re-enactment and narration, docudrama and memory play. Most of the story is told by Gillaume, a Teutonic Sammy Glick who worked his way into Brandt's confidence--and passed along everything he saw and heard to his East German contact, who converses with him from a corner of the stage for much of the play. We witness Brandt's political successes, the infighting among his Cabinet, his knack for galvanizing crowds and his weakness for women. But it's all surprisingly dry and flatfooted as drama: too much tell...