Word: poseurs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kevin Fitzpatrick, her prey in that scene, also has trouble acting drunk, but otherwise his performance satisfies. A poseur, Richard Miller over-romanticizes himself and his love. Fitzpatrick is properly stagy. His adolescent self-consciousness comes across beautifully: when he quotes Omar Khayyam, we can feel his pride at knowing a poem by heart. Fitzpatrick manages Richard's tricky character development well. He really does change; Richard quotes poetry, by the end of the play, not to impress anyone, but because poetry expresses his thoughts better than anything else...