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...ability to evoke such complex emotion—he never forgets his performance in the mass of complicated text he must deliver. Even when his personality flashes from Nick to office worker, his seemingly inconsequential gestures are nuanced and deliberate. Shepherd looks continuously at a clock throughout the play, a tic that reveals its portentous significance when Nick recounts the timeline of Gatsby’s death. Shepherd’s skillful handling of his role is an accomplishment that dwarfs the rest of the company by comparison...
Only Vin Knight stands out from the ensemble in his various roles. His Owl Eyes in particular adds a certain charm to the party at Gatsby’s house, and his reappearance near the end of the play provides touching levity...
...Jazz Age and situates its characters in a dreary office that could easily serve as the set of Samuel Beckett’s bleak “Endgame.” Yet these surroundings emphasize the mainstay of Fitzgerald’s work. As the play progresses, and the narrator comes to realize the careless arrogance that defines Daisy, Tom, and Jordan, the backdrop remains a stark foreshadowing of what lies beneath the lavish glamour of these characters. Stripped of their displays of wealth, the three characters are as cold and unfeeling as the world ERS has created around them...
...detective-cum-action-hero Holmes, Robert Downey Jr. discovers what many great actors have before him—that one can play essentially the same character in many films, provided that one is entertaining enough to get away with it. In Downey’s case, the intellectually brilliant, heavy-drinking and hard-hitting persona of American arms inventor Tony Stark of “Iron Man” proves surprisingly adaptable to 19th century England. That is to say, all that is needed is a change of accent. This is not a deep role...
...drops the word “hogwash,” Tassie deadpans, “I had once seen a hog washed. In whey. The hog was Helen, and she really liked it, the slop of the whey, then later a cool hose.” Her constant language-play calls attention to the separate vernaculars of Troy and Dellacrosse. As a result, the novel establishes an unusual and rather negative role for language—that of a barrier in the way of communication...