Word: karle
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Karl Marx was wrong about a lot, but he was right about one thing: politics is born of economics. The political stability of the new Commonwealth of Independent States will require steady, substantial infusions of cash, credits and know-how from outside...
...venues, handles the shifts in tones with equal measures of delicacy and boldness. Laura Esterman, who has played Bessie since the beginning, nonetheless has an aura of uncalculated spontaneity in the hardest sort of role, a character of true goodness who is still approachable and fun. Mark Rosenthal and Karl Maschek as the boys, also cast since Chicago, have been ably joined by Lisa Emery as their mother and Alice Drummond as their dotty great-aunt...
...John (Karl Saddlemeyer), Geoffrey (Richard Claflin) and Richard Lionheart (Adam Geyer), Henry's sons, provide both comic relief and a tragic element as they struggle for the throne. Saddlemeyer's fatuous complacence amuses the audience: "I'm Father's favorite--that's what counts." Claflin shows resentment at being the proverbial second son by spitting out every sarcastic line. Geyer shows the roots of Richard's Oedipal dilemma early in the play with his seemingly inexplicable hatred of his mother...
...delighted to find in the Reverend Gomes a man more reformed and Protestant than Karl Barth--to say nothing of Luther and Calvin; a man more Christian than Paul, Augustine or Aquinas; a man with more authority than all of these and the Scriptures put together; and I find myself confirmed in this high estimation out of the man's own mouth, as he liberates us from each of these tyrannies in its turn...
...Waltzer's performance as the father hints at inexperience. He stumbles through some lines, and his gestures are occasionally awkward. Karl Lampley created a respectable Jamie, although he does not project as much "Broadway diction" robustness as O'Neil delincates for the role...