Word: romanus
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...from serviceable to superb. The sheer number of minor characters and the indistinguishability of their names does not prevent certain actors from achieving distinction: particularly wonderful were Candy Buckley as the secretary Polixena Vasilievna Toropetskaya, Margaret Gibson as the cat-hurling actress Lyudmila Silvestrovna Priakina and Jeremy Geidt as Romanus, the conductor at the Independent Theatre. Derek Smith is not a very dynamic Maksudov; although he expresses his suicidal desperation nicely, his creative anxieties and joys are only sketchily delineated. Alvin Epstein as Ivan Vasilyevich, the director of the Independent Theatre conspicuously modeled on Stanislavsky, is eminently believable...