Word: mistressing
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...philosophy mars the entire production--the performance ends up fuzzy, focusing on neither theme. This swinging back-and-forth results in passion when a delicate appreciation of the philosophical base of the play is more appropriate, or staunch underplaying when intensity is required. In one scene, Caesonia, Caligula's mistress (Sonia Martinez), tries to explain to Scipio (Matthew Horseman), a sensitive and innocent friend of the young Roman emperor, why Caligula had his father's tongue torn from his mouth and then slain for no apparent reason. In an attempt to make Scipio empathize with the personal torment of Caligula...
...often the cast plays for laughs instead. Daniel Terris as De Flores--the misshapen servant to the heroine, and villain of the play--mars what might have been a superb overall performance by childishly pouting in his early scenes. De Flores lusts after his mistress Beatrice (Anne Montgomery) and offers to kill the husband her father intends for her. She accepts and her complicity in this crime draws her into a whirlpool of moral corruption...
Untrue. Washingtonians can see him almost any day whizzing around town, often on foot. Tall, slim and elegant in his dark suit and white mustache, Strout avoids the cocktail circuit, preferring the evening company of Wife Ernestine and his longtime mistress, the printed word. "I read, read, read," he says. "You can't read enough. You can't know enough...
...vows. He falls in love with a lady whom he has seen in church, and dashes out into the world, not even knowing her name. He eventually learns that she is Leonora (Shirley Verrett), but for an unforgivable amount of time it eludes him that she is the mistress of King Alfonso XI (Sherrill Milnes), even though a chap wearing a crown is always lurking about her or walking up and down the steps to a throne. There are also political complications in Leonora's life. Fernando is no match for all this. (Bad luck: he could have provided Lohengrin...
...scenes between Ruth and Saul are unquestionably the most realistic and the most engrossing in the play. Barnes's Ruth shines in both her dimensions--suitably mysterious in her witchcraft, wise and shrewishly loving in her human relations. Whenever he faces serious trouble, Saul seeks out his mistress Ruth, who tartly reprimands him for selfishly taking and not giving, but helps him nevertheless. Ruth is the only character in the play who really understands Saul's limitations, and how unsuited he is for his role of king...