Word: nicking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...start of the game, however, Harvard fans had little to cheer about. Only three minutes into the game, B.U.'s Nick Bone sent a hard shot into the net, and the Crimson couldn't seem to find its rhythm...
...pair's catty and provocative banter heightens quickly into sneerful braying as Martha announces that, at daddy's request, she's invited a young couple over for a nightcap. The jocky, naively ambitious biology professor Nick (Roy Souza) and his cotton-candy wifelet Honey (Nicole Jesson) arrive amidst a jeering exchange of expletives. At first bubbling with apologies and awkwardness, they soon fall immediately into their hosts' manipulative and destructive games. Surrounded by a well-stocked bar and worn volumes on the shelves (including such too-apt titles as "The Possessed," "Illusions," "Gamesman" and "Father's Day"), the elder couple...
...elder couple, are slightly more believable, or perhaps more energetic, throughout the course of the night. Ayres roars appropriately through lines like "I'm running this show!" as he conducts the latest game, "Get the Guests;" and he dryly combines hate, humbleness and irony as he retorts to Nick's accusation: "Because you're going to hump Martha, I'm disgusting?" The only break in Ayres' intensity occurred in the scene when George shoots Martha with what seems at first to be a shotgun, but releases only an umbrella; because of prop difficulties, Ayres had to shake...
Moulton also adeptly portrays the transformation of Martha, screeching comments and complaints about anything from Bette Davis movies to the worst of her husband's pathetic qualities, then cooing sexual yet motherly come-ons at Nick, and finally, reduced to her befuddled, infantile core, gasping lines like "I'm cold" and "I don't know." Moulton's appearance and costume, however, tend toward the exaggerated side of middle-class, middle-aged skank, and it often lessens the plausibility and fluidity of some scenes. Albee describes Martha's character as "A large, boisterous woman, 52, looking somewhat younger, ample...
...Honey and Nick, Jesson and Souza tackle somewhat more difficult roles, for their characters seem, at first, to lack any of the depth and inner turmoil of their elder colleagues. Honey hops into and through the production with an acebandaged ankle, a successful addition to the original script (Albee never calls for her injury), be it an intentional move by the director, George O'Keefe, or a lucky unintentional slip-and-fall by Jesson herself. Perhaps portraying a ditz is difficult, but Jesson's performance, while adequate, leans toward the uninspired. Hubby Souza exudes the young preppiness of a just...