Word: lisa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...play's early scenes, Amberg gives the aspiring dancer Lisa an a genial air of ingenuousness, but her acting is weak in the confrontation scene in which John confesses his love...
...play's focus is John, a sort of Holden Caulfield for the "Silver Spoons" set, and his unrequited passion for his longtime friend Lisa. Rejecting the complicated poetics of the Petrachan lover...
John simply declares to his psychiatrist, "I didn't deserve her. I didn't get her. Now she's gone." He has difficulty articulating just why his love object, Lisa, should want him, but, like most of us, he is convinced, as though by a rare knowledge of the workings of destiny, that he is deserving...
John's unpleasant precosciousness comes across as creepy rather than charming and funny. Far better and more genuine are the scenes featuring the older John and Lisa (played by Liz Amberg), though the latter's character is never developed enough to justify John's frantic state of mind...
...psychiatrist is given some good lines. His response to John's description of the unattainable Lisa provokes a hilariously digressive musing on a bikini-clad would-be Lolita form his distant past. But Sachs' timing is sometimes off, robbing the lines of their comic potential...