Word: patly
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...annoying wait is Creditors, a play written by the Swedish dramatist Johan August Strindberg in 1888. It's about a submissive artist (Patrick Harlan), his wife (Taimi Barty) and her dominating ex-husband (Ronnie Hernandez), all of whom take their respective actors' real names. With his marriage in trouble, Pat turns to Ronnie, his new and best male friend, for advice and consolation. But Pat doesn't know that Ronnie is his wife's ex and has his own designs on Taimi...
...Creditors unfolds its plot in a direct, uninterrupted, concise way," read the program notes. Right. And the lunch lines in the Union are efficient. Creditors, in fact, opens with an interminable and flat dialogue between Pat and Ronnie. It then moves on to interminable and flat dialogues between Pat and Taimi and, finally, Taimi and Ronnie. All that action in just under two hours...
Hernandez does play a convincingly manipulative Ronnie, able to control Pat and, to a lesser extent, Taimi. And Barty's Taimi is seductive, passionate and alluring...
...problem is Harlan, whose character stands at the center of Creditors for the first two-thirds of the play. But Harlan delivers Pat's emotional lines with an incredible lack of feeling. "Your words are cutting me like knives," he deadpans to Taimi. And those are just the lines that are comprehensible, since Harlan tends to swallow syllables and sometimes whole words. He also spends too much time nervously fondling both his wife--he speaks a good number of lines directly into her stomach--and his champagne glass--one of the few props in the spartan...
According to Senior Tutor Pat C. Hoy II, the first swastika, spotted and removed three weeks ago, was drawn on the inside wall of the house's elevator. Another swastika appeared a few weeks later...