Word: jesson
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pair's catty and provocative banter heightens quickly into sneerful braying as Martha announces that, at daddy's request, she's invited a young couple over for a nightcap. The jocky, naively ambitious biology professor Nick (Roy Souza) and his cotton-candy wifelet Honey (Nicole Jesson) arrive amidst a jeering exchange of expletives. At first bubbling with apologies and awkwardness, they soon fall immediately into their hosts' manipulative and destructive games. Surrounded by a well-stocked bar and worn volumes on the shelves (including such too-apt titles as "The Possessed," "Illusions," "Gamesman" and "Father's Day"), the elder couple...
...Honey and Nick, Jesson and Souza tackle somewhat more difficult roles, for their characters seem, at first, to lack any of the depth and inner turmoil of their elder colleagues. Honey hops into and through the production with an acebandaged ankle, a successful addition to the original script (Albee never calls for her injury), be it an intentional move by the director, George O'Keefe, or a lucky unintentional slip-and-fall by Jesson herself. Perhaps portraying a ditz is difficult, but Jesson's performance, while adequate, leans toward the uninspired. Hubby Souza exudes the young preppiness of a just...