Word: rogal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Keith H Rogal '84, $1500, for his senior thesis entitled. Of Dreams and Towers William Beckford and the Practice of Associationism Professor James S Ackerman...
...distract us, though the pacing remains subtly off--the end of each scene, including the last, comes as a surprise letdown instead of a definitive period. In between, by way of atonement, Cutler has admirably showcased a parade of comedy bits, from the infamous live lamb to Keith Rogal's slimy portrayal of Corporate Evil as the interloping lawyer. Still, no amount of carbonation can lighten this load; Curse would weigh down the blithest spirit with distaste for these starving and unstarving misfits, compassion for their situation, and deep-rooted discomfort at their closeness to a twisted but familiar reality...
...sense of relaxation, in fact, pervades the performance. Most of the comic leads--Feste, Olivia's drunken uncle Toby Belch, (Keith Rogal) his wimpy cohort Andrew Aguecheek, (Peter Howard), and the wench Maria (Dolly Wiggins)--stick to understatement, letting the situations and the lines do the work. This tendency results in several nearly inaudible scenes, like those ones between Sebastian (Jeremy Black) and his follower Antonio--but often it works to the play's advantage, making the occasional broad comedy doubly comic. Rogal as Toby Belch may swallow a line or two, but his grimaces in otherwise underplayed scenes spark...
...next fool to enter this madhouse is Dr. Rance (Keith Rogal), as a government psychiatrist checking whether Dr. Prentice's clinic is up-to-scratch. In his efforts to cover up his failed seduction, Dr. Prentice allows Rance to believe that Miss Barclay, still naked and prostrate behind the curtain, is a nymphomaniac patient...
Mark Lupke, as Seargeant Match, sent to find the now-missing tandem of Miss Barclay and Beckett, plays the Law with a straight man elegance that Buster Keaton might have envied. Keith Rogal portrays Dr. Rance with a maniacal energy, but lets loose in the final scene. Ted Chandler's Nicholas Beckett is flat at first, seemingly bored with the placidity of his first appearance in contrast to his later shenanigans. As the plot unfolds, he becomes more at case with his part, taking the caricature of Beckett to the limit...