Word: kanter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Resilient couples have learned to find some advantages in their constant separations. Many speak of having more time for work, friends and hobbies; others point to their newfound self-sufficiency. Shelly London, 38, an AT&T district manager of public relations in Atlanta, and Larry Kanter, 38, a radio news anchor in the same city, find that incompatible hours help keep the romance in their relationship. "We're sort of always newlyweds," London says. "We're real jealous of our time on weekends...
...under the direction of Lisi Fishman, the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel Dramatic Society's production of Broadway Bound emphasizes the dramatic, rather than the comic, aspects of Simon's play. The performances of Jodi Kanter, Jeff Golden and Jeremy Blumenthal as Eugene's parents and brother are riveting...
Nonetheless, the high quality of the acting makes this production worth watching. While Simon's one-liners are funny, it is the silences of Kanter as Kate, Eugene's mother, and Blumenthal as Jack, his father, that represent the play's best moments. Their interaction with one another and with the play's other actors is first-rate. Even the four Mather residents who walked through the back of the set during a climactic scene between the two parents did not manage to spoil the tension...
...Kanter deserves particular praise. She remains tightly controlled throughout the play, showing Kate's strain but never overdoing it. As she describes the scenes of her youth to Stanley and Eugene, she reveals a side of her personality which seems incongruous to them but entirely believable to the audience. And when she realizes that Jack has left her, Kanter says nothing but still manages to dominate the stage. Her face says...