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...rugged-looking Dan Zelman is well-cast as the sensitive Irishman, Colm Primrose, and Heather Gunn is equally well-cast as the polished English city girl, Timothea Stiles...
...Gunn's performance is equally exceptional. She creates a rich character, richer, perhaps, than even the script intended. Her eyes really do sparkle; she really does blush; and we believe her eagerness when she opens Colm's letters. We trust the warmth in her voice when she plainly states, "I do love you, my darling." Occasionally, Gunn seems more a mainstage actress, when her movements are somewhat big for the small Dunster House JCR, but her performance is nonetheless wholly believable and delightful to watch...
Much of acting is reacting, and though Zelman and Gunn are independently talented actors, their dynamics are what make the show better than just good. We sense the love between them, the electric sexual tension of their first real meeting, and the awkwardness of their first sexual encounter are all genuine...
Frayn begins Noise Off brilliantly--for several minutes Heather Gunn, who plays the actress Dotty Otley, who plays housekeeper Mrs. Clackett in Nothing On, occupies the stage, nonsensically mumbling about sardines and trying to answer a telephone at the same time. It is only minutes later, with the entrance of the director of Nothing On, that the audience understands that Noise Off is about the rehearsal of another play...
Lovers' quarrels provide the root of the bedlam backstage in Act II. Lejune is madly in love with Otley and is angry, suspecting that she and the bumbling Frederick Fellowes (Steve Petersen) are having an affair. Barton's Lejune storms around backstage begging Gunn's Otley to take him back, yelling at her for having an affair and plotting to kill Steve Petersen, who wonderfully portrays the innocent Fellowes...