Word: lovingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ACTING is falsehood. Or so it is in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, in which a love-entangled quarter of theater people, so used to faking emotions on stage, cannot feel emotions off stage. They resort to biting wordplay that is done to the hilt in the polished but ultimately sterile Winthrop production...
...same characters, a challenge only Thomas meets. As Henry and Annie fight and smooch it out, Hoagland seems to portray a completely new person. But perhaps this difficulty stems from the problem Henry mentions when he is reworking a play: "I don't know how to write love. It's either childish or its rude...
After an hour dominated by coy postures, it is relieving to see the young innocent Billy (John Ducey) enter the play. The sturdily-built, lumbering Ducey adds a midwestern quality to an otherwise overwhelming British play And for once he and Annie talk about love, the real thing...
...Henry, though, who cares most about attaining the real thing. be it real love or real literature. Yet throughout the play he is only able to articulate it through clever tirades. He compares real drama to a good cricket bat. He contrasts his dated pop favorites with classical works. While these motifs are entertaining, they seem to be vain attempts to give the play breadth...
...there Tuesday night," said Brown Coach Maureen Enos, whose team lost to both Harvard and the Big Green last weekend. "I love it. It's a do-or-die situation...