Word: honeyed
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...bribe to Edwards. He was a bad boy, but the voters never cared; Edwards liked to joke that he'd never have to leave office unless he was "caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy." Edwards was a charmer, a scamp, a honey-tongued governor perfectly matched to his state who apparently had more bag men than press secretaries, and was loved for that, in the great and unique local tradition of Earl and Huey Long. Return me to office, he once implored voters, "or there won't be anything left to steal." They...
...production is minimal; the set design of Kris Kelly, while functional, pushes neither the actors nor the space in any profound direction. Much more interesting is the costume-design of Naeemah White-Peppers and Valerie DeCharette '02; from George's relaxed academia, clad in earth tones and corduroy, to Honey's prim and proper coordinated outfit or Nick's slick, ambitious look, each costume says something insightful about its respective character...
...alternate reality for themselves and all who enter. Their lives are a series of contests where as soon as a point is scored the rules change, often with devastating consequences. When an ambitious young biology professor named Nick (Jason McNeely '00), new to the college, and his wife Honey (Bilqis Hijjas '01) stop by for an after dinner drink, they inadvertently set off a long-overdue, climactic confrontation between the older couple. After twenty-three years of marriage, George and Martha declare war on one another, and it soon becomes clear that only one of them will survive the evening...
...apparent inability to separate. Through their abject loathing, both of themselves and each other, it becomes clear that at the bottom of the humiliations and insults there is a bond far too strong for either of them to sacrifice. It is this same, inexplicable attraction which prevents Nick and Honey from withdrawing from the domestic battlefield before they too are wounded. In fact, until the final moments, it seems as though the unlucky visitors may receive the worst of George and Martha's spiteful insults; the older couple are long-since used to their relationship, treating each other's constant...
...suppressed anger boiling over-carries the action of the drama and most of the audience's sympathies. Anna Pound's Martha puts up a good fight, but is just slightly too shrewish to make her incessant complaints of George's failure sound convincing. Though interesting characters themselves, Nick and Honey are reduced to back seat passengers as George and Martha speed headlong toward one another...