Word: patheticism
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The actors seem to be aware of the play's shortcomings and act as if embarrassed by the needless spectacle. Willis, who plays Uyttersprot, does a relatively good job and is quite believable by the final act. But this finale, while faster paced than the rest of the show and...
Within minutes I was on my feet with my towel in one hand and soap in the other, standing at attention on the harshly cold tile floor. After several minutes of being told how pathetic we were, my platoon was hustled into the shower. We held our towels outstretched in...
Gibson has the most difficult task; the play positions Mary as a perpetual victim. At her best, Gibson achieves a bitter strenth, exposing the emptiness and self-indulgence of Bysshe's idealism. She is least successful when she allows Mary's helpless anger to deteriorate into petulent whining. Her complaints...
As the crippled groundskeeper Nicodemus Underwood, the master's new mistress Lady Enid and Alcazar the entrepreneurial Egyptian tour guide, Diego Arceniegas is also very strong. He plays Nicodemus with just the right combination of threatening coarseness and pathetic awkwardness.
With a plot from Gogol and a play-within-a-play fiasco as funny as in Nicholas Nickleby, artistic director Daniel Sullivan and the actors of Seattle Repertory Theater hilariously send up censorship controversies, the regional- theater movement's fear of the National Endowment for the Arts and the widespread...