Word: kelekian
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Boas portrays Bearing’s intensity and anguish, stressing the hostile, hubristic, and threatened side of her personality, a choice that is in keeping with the script but also somewhat alienating for audiences. Her medical counterparts, Dr. Kelekian (John D. Boller) and Dr. Posner (Lenny M. Braman, HLS ’05) are brisk and impersonal. Posner is slightly warmer than Bearing yet less self-aware; unlike Bearing, has no idea that he should be more sympathetic, even as he describes his patient as “very unresponsive” on a clipboard before realizing that said patient...
Still, the play avoids the trap of caricature; Posner is genuinely excited about cancer and poetry, while Kelekian and Bearing share a moment complaining about the ineptitude of their respective students...
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