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Ronis and Langsam seem to spread their wings and take flight, each going to new heights of expression, and taking the audience with them But others are less able to sustain the illusion Isenberg's tone of voice becomes distracting after a time; we wish she could be turned off...
THE POIGNANI JUXT APOSITION between the illusion of hope football offers the town and the reality in which they live makes much of All the Right Moves an incisive example of social criticism. When the team captain tells a stadium full of adult fans "We're not doing this just...
CHOOSING TO PRESENT a play as good as Ibsen's Hedda Gabler--as the Quincy House Drama Society must have realized--considerably lightens the director's workload. Still, it doesn't make it disappear. The lackluster production in the Quincy House JCR this weekend shows the effects of this gap...
Jacobson as Lovborg is not only convincing but heartrending, with a meek bearing masking an inner, doomed nobility of character. What keeps him and Brack from salvaging the play is the same lack of ambition that hampers the other actors. This time, though, the lack comes in the production staff...
In the end, Hedda Gabler seems to founder not through lack of talent but through lack of vigor--in conceptualizing, in listening to the lines as they're spoken, in following the illusion through. An ounce of committed effort could still send an electric current through this play, turning it...