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...Cabot House, the boring, annoying wait is Creditors, a play written by the Swedish dramatist Johan August Strindberg in 1888. It's about a submissive artist (Patrick Harlan), his wife (Taimi Barty) and her dominating ex-husband (Ronnie Hernandez), all of whom take their respective actors' real names. With his marriage in trouble, Pat turns to Ronnie, his new and best male friend, for advice and consolation. But Pat doesn't know that Ronnie is his wife's ex and has his own designs on Taimi...
...problem is Harlan, whose character stands at the center of Creditors for the first two-thirds of the play. But Harlan delivers Pat's emotional lines with an incredible lack of feeling. "Your words are cutting me like knives," he deadpans to Taimi. And those are just the lines that are comprehensible, since Harlan tends to swallow syllables and sometimes whole words. He also spends too much time nervously fondling both his wife--he speaks a good number of lines directly into her stomach--and his champagne glass--one of the few props in the spartan...
...fault is not all Harlan's though. The production is crippled from the beginning by a meandering, esoteric, overlong script. And Cabranes-Grant's direction--what little is apparent in the performance--doesn't make Creditors more interesting or understandable. As the play winds on, it becomes harder and harder even to care what happens to the love triangle...
...major organs begin to die even while hospital trauma teams are rushing to the rescue. Each year 25% of the shock victims who make it to the emergency room are revived only to die later. "It seems evolution never intended for someone to be resuscitated after shock," says John Harlan, head of hematology at the University of Washington in Seattle. Harlan and his colleagues hope to outfox evolution with a CAM-blocking drug that keeps white cells from sticking after shock. In a series of animal studies, the drug saved 75% from certain death...
...Harlan does an excellent job of portraying Truscott as a sort of lunatic master of ceremonies, the most thoroughly ruthless character in Orton's thoroughly ruthless world. Harlan's intense Truscott, at once menacing and ridiculous, is an appropriate blend of Sherlock Holmes, a Keystone Kop and Adolf Hitler. His quick-paced style works especially well in some of the play's wittiest exchanges, such as when members of the household find Truscott snooping through their belongings...