Word: javerbaum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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William's story is set in a guest bedroom of a large plantation in the Mississippi Delta. The play centers on the faltering marriage of Brick (David Javerbaum) and Maggie (Cori Lynn Peterson) Pollit. Brick has turned to alcohol as an escape from Maggie, whom he can no longer love. Brick's disdain for Maggie has caused the couple to live without children--something unacceptable in the eyes of Big Daddy (Stanley Sneeringer) and Big Mama (Janine Poreba) Pollit...
Williams's powerful script requires strong performances from the main characters. And Peterson and Javerbaum rise to the occasion. Peterson gives an urgent performance that moves the audience to feel her need for love and attention from Brick. In scenes with her sister-in-law Mae (Heather Hughes), Peterson displays just the right amount of spite and hatred, while still retaining her Southern manners...
...Javerbaum is perfectly removed as Brick, the ex-football player turned alcoholic. Shattered by the death of his friend and teammate, Skipper, Brick is even more hurt by the accusations that these two friends were homosexual lovers. For much of the play, Caplow has Javerbaum hover in the background as he drinks himself into peaceful oblivion. The few times that Javerbaum is required to express rage are more believable when contrasted with his normal drunken indifference...
...hatred between Antonio and Shylock is the conflict which fuels the plot of The Merchant of Venice. Consumed by revenge, Shylock demands that he receive Antonio's flesh for his bond. Javerbaum delivers one of Shakespeare's most famous speeches--"If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh?". Unfortunately, this monologue, while spoken adequately enough by Javerbaum, lacks the emotion and disgust for Antonio and the Christian world which such a powerful speech requires...
...Javerbaum redeems himself during those scenes in which Shylock is left humiliated by Portia and Antonio, forced to yield all of his possessions, and made to renounce his religion. In these moments Javerbaum raises his performance to the level of Shakespeare's writing, evoking intense pity as he leaves the stage a broken...