Word: myra
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Even though the rest of the cast isn't quite up to the level of the three most important characters, they don't interfere much. Bruhl's wife Myra (Anne Higgins) is a factor only in the first act: Myra is suitably awkward when Anderson arrives and she ridiculously fears that her husband may actually do him in for the chance at another hit and a trip to the Riviera. And Bruhl's lawyer Porte Migrim (Paolo Carozza) comes by occasionally to act pseudo-everything like the prototypical Westport, Conn. lawyers...
...serious playwright with serious ideas," says Myra Mayman, director of Office for the Arts, which named Kenney's play the Louis B. Mayer Memorial Production at the Agassiz. Mayman points out that the Agassiz has traditionally been user as forum for original plays including Eugene O'Neill's early works. "P.J. Kenney is in that great tradition," she adds...
Once a self-professed vagabond. Myra Mayman has rarely stayed in any one job for more than a year. In fact, before coming to Harvard 10 years ago as the first director of the Office for the Arts. Mayman--only seven years out of Bryn Mawr College--had held seven different jobs in almost as many cities. As she explains it: "I had no specific career plan in mind...
...Myra Mayman...
Vidal recycles grotesques reminiscent of Myra Breckinridge. He also programs a lot of cultural software: the racially balanced TV news team, the English butler from Duluth's elegant Garfield Heights section who asks a visitor, "Whom shall I say is calling she?" and the ludicrous prose of costume romance-"Beryl flares her nostrils inadvertently, an effect not unlike that of a pomme soufflée getting its second wind." There are also efforts to get laughs from the subject of comparative genitalia...