Word: petulante
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Janet Lee Parker plays Maja, Rubek's restless young wife, with an excess of verve. Maja is supposed to be petulant and mischievous. Too often Miss Parker makes her seem simply immature. In the second act she sprawls and bounces about the stage like a hypertense teenager. The contrast between...
Off the hustings, both sides had their problems. The Tory government had to own up last week to the fact that the trade gap had widened still further in August (see WORLD BUSINESS). Labor, whose promise to deliver growth without inflation hangs upon keeping Britain's petulant trade unions...
The problem with this approach is that it totally ignores character. Witwoud (Davil Anderson) and Petulant (Armand Asselin), for example, are foolish fops, but they are charming in their absurdity.
Despite the play's grandiose scale, its best moments--and there are a number of good ones--come when the leads can shed the crowds, stop bellowing with all stops out, and play to one another as if they are, after all, really people. Brutus (Mark Bramhall) and Cassius (Thimas...
The rest of the cast cannot fill the vacuum left by this Joan, but George Grizzard achieves a telling comic portrait of the Dauphin. He is petulant, epicene; he oozes suppressed venom. Wandering erratically about the stage like an uncooped hen, he scratches up laugh after laugh.