Word: roguish
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...Dublin dialect, while invariably musical, is sometimes irritatingly impenetrable. In a troupe that plays well, but not always together, Cyril Cusack stands out as a sly, roguish charmer. Siobhan McKenna, a woman seemingly larger of spirit than any role she fills, makes Bessie Burgess a matron of blood, steel and tears. T.E. Kalem
...smaller-scale direction, especially blocking, is excellent. Smooth timing and imaginative use of props stretch the humor--this particular facet of Weller's play becomes the mainstay of the Dunster production. David Alpert gives a skillful and sophisticated performance as the roguish Mike who masterminds the comic scenes. His sidekick, played by Andy Berger, is a lackluster second fiddle. Andrea Gordon as Ruth and Nikki Mintz as Kathy speak their lines self-consciously, sounding unnatural saying "fuck" and "shit"; it's as though the Jackson twins have bedded down with the entire high school football team...
...Coulouris and Martin Balsam sitting on the sidelines. Whenever one witness leaves the cabin, one of the two roundly asserts, "He did it" and the other scoffs; when the next witness leaves, they reverse roles. And Lauren Bacall produces the murder weapon from her pocket book with the most roguish look on her face since she told Humphrey Bogart how to whistle in To Have and Have...
Gwynne's Big Daddy is a man of cutting cruelty, but he lacks the roguish animal magnetism of Burl Ives in the 1955 original. Dullea is much too nerveless as Brick; his crutch upstages him. Stalwart Kate Reid rates a special citation for her earthy, grieving, raging Big Mama. But it is Elizabeth Ashley, purring, clawing, fighting for her man, who gives the play a mesmeric, electrifying intensity. ∎ T.E.K...
...story, set in California more than a century ago, is elegant and simple rather than wild and woolly: Eileen Mulkerin, an Irish widow, and her two sons, Sean, the roguish sea captain, and Michael, a nicely implacable monk, are fighting to keep their ranch at Malibu from assorted ruffians (mercifully free from squints, twitches or actual deformity). The villains do not stand a chance. They have to face the psychological weaponry of the Mulkerins' Indian friends (using ancient magical powers to scare the wits out of them). Those villains who survive face the actual hardware of other friends, "lean...