Word: pompousity
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Benjamin Evett is perfect as the borderline-scummy Pentheus. He and his arrogant band of secret service agents, complete with slicked hair and alligator-green suits (and, yes, sandals), really make it easy to hate this pompous leader who mocks his own grandfather. By the time Pentheus succumbs to Dionysos's offer of a chance to watch the Bacchae, and shamefully puts on a dress as the Maenads hoot and catcall, the audience feels little pity towards him. His imminent doom is not a tragedy; it is simply a foolish leader's receiving his just desserts. Yet during the drag...
...American industrialist buying his way into ancient English titles and estates, makes a caricature of himself with his loud, hearty declamations and zestful crudeness of manner. Geidt lacks Mephistophelian finesse as both Mendoza and Satan, but is nicely balanced by Epstein who is superb as the stiffly and stuffily pompous Ramsden/Statue. And Rowe is highly diverting as the laconic chauffeur (H)enry Straker--Shaw's representative of the ideal working-class man, contempt for the bourgeois...
...being celebrated by the whole town--with the exception of the lonely Constance (Jennifer Tattenbaum '99), who is pining away for the love of the ditzy but endearing Vicar, Dr. Daly (John Driscoll '99). Everybody seems enamored either with another person or with love itself. Even Alexis' pompous father, Sir Marmaduke (Jordan Cooper '99), admits that he too once adored Aline's noble mother, Lady Sangazure (Anja Kollmus). Delighted with the idea of everyone falling in love, regardless of class, age, or even personal tastes, Alexis ignores Aline's protests and enlists the aid of a sorcerer to cast...
...characters. In the first act, Carol's whiny narrowness is hopelessly outmatched by John's self-assurance. Davidson deftly expressed John's arrogance, reading the line "I love you, too," spoken to his wife over the phone, not as a response to her own affection but as a pompous self-affirmation. "I love myself first," he implicitly states, "and I also love you." Kaye, for her part, squeezed a few unlikely laughs out of Carol's anxious despair in the face of confounding verbiage like "the virtual warehousing of the young...
...resolution to Harriet's dilemmas is much less credible. After having a relationship with her pompous and obnoxious "boss's boss" (Weiner again) that doesn't work out, she starts dating and then gets engaged to another man after only two weeks. Throughout the play she has emphasized to Janie the importance of living on your own--and then defies all of that with a quick marriage...