Word: overacting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Miller, speaking after a one-year trip through China, said that the tendency in Chinese theater to "overact" and play to an audience was the biggest difference between Chinese and Western theater. He added, however, that there seems to be a fusion taking place of this "presentational method" with a "more realistic Western method," in which actors work with the "fourth wall...
...almost solely on Arnolphe's facial expressions upon hearing Horace's descriptions of the ups and downs of his attepts to woo Agnes. Toope has the energy to play Arnolphe, but little of the control and pacing. He succumbs to the temptation--so strong in Moliere's plays--to overact. He rants too much, usually beginning his long monologues too vehemently and maintaining the same tone throughout. This inevitably becomes tedious. His grimacing is equally overdone. Toope has a face that rivals Jerry Lewis's for its malleability. He abuses this asset, however, and often seems to forcing his face...
...acting, with the exception of Strang and Wilkins, is overdone and the delicate, sincere moments are lost in superficial sighs. Strang is convincing, making her presence in the drama count, and the overblown Wilkins (no pun intended) can never really overact the part of an asshole as intolerable as Bernie...
...production's one weakness is Wayne Morse, who tended to overact the part of Albert, and whose voice was occassionally drowned out by Clapps's in the duos...
...small parts are all nicely etched, and there is a superb bit of character work by Richard Bright as a cheap thief who swipes a suitcase full of loot from Ali MacGraw. Al Lettieri, as a hamhanded, slow-talking killer, and Sally Struthers, as a giggly little moll, both overact, in contrast to McQueen and MacGraw...