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Hamm is the main character of the play. Blind, unable to stand, he is wheeled about and catered to by Clov, who irrationally obeys him though constantly threatening to leave. Hamm keeps his parents, Nagg and Nell, in barrels from which their heads occasionally appear to reminisce, tell a joke, listen to Hamm. The characters inhabit a world going dead. They have run out of bicycle wheels, sugar plums, and worst of all, pain killers. They pass the time running through stale old stories and pointless dialogues as their only protection against the death outside...
...sentenced to four years in a Siberian labor camp, he requested only one kind of reading matter: books by Dickens. In mid-19th century New York, ships arriving with the latest installment of Dickens' The Old Curiosity Shop were met by anxious cries from the dock: "Is Little Nell dead...
...shown on a slide at the back of the stage. In general, the device of contrasting the actors with the likenesses of the characters they portray is effective and helps occupy the viewer's mind during the long dry stretches. The three mistresses are well done, especially Pamela Walters' Nell Gwynne, who flounces about the stage like a first-rate floozy...
...turning it on for public scenes and off in more private moments. As Monmouth himself, Timothy Clark works hard and reads intelligently (when he is given intelligent lines to read), but is unable to convey either age or weight. He, and Susan Yakutis, who performs more than creditably as Nell Gwynn, are perhaps the primary victims of the text's shortcomings. Often they seem in danger of choking on strings of quaint expletives. "Bloody" and "God's breath" got a good deal of special attention. The author's attention to the special diction of period and character is, in fact...
Crimson captain Dick Benka was the only competitor to set a record. His toss of 58'3/4" broke the Army cage standard of 57'7 1/4", which Benka had also set. Unfortunately, cadets Helmut Haas and Pete Nell earned second and third...