Word: rosepettleã
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...dead husband whose coffin sits by her bed, she manages to combine the regal and the psychotic eerily well. Palma lends an appropriate volume and edge to her character, often seeming to be on the verge of physically attacking someone, but lacks some of the hauteur that should accompany Rosepettle??€™s sense of entitlement, even at her most hysterical. Fortunately, Palma is called upon to be aggressive at least as often as contemptuous, and more so as the play’s relationships and characters break down...
...reality and fantasy—tenuous to begin with—breaks down entirely. Characters who were bellboys in the first half (played by Jonathan J. Carpenter ’07, Allan S. Bradley ’11, and Sam D. Stuntz ’10) become figures from Rosepettle??€™s past as she describes her relationship with her dead husband. They later embody the plant and fish of the epic battle scene, allowing the play to fully embrace an element of surrealism as it heads toward its remarkable climax...
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