Word: sarcasm
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...Subtle sarcasm pervades Duke's performance, and the success of this technique is probably due in large part to Gillian Lynne's direction. in the middle of Act I Jeeves begins telling his part of the story by saying "Employers are like horses--both need to be managed." The timing of the line, combined with the slight smirk that Duke wears on his face as he delivers it, gives credence to the great chemistry that Lynne and Duke share...
...officials declare that the drug lords fear extradition more than anything else because they cannot terrorize judges and juries in the U.S. as readily as they can those in Colombia. The gangsters agree. Their communiques have been issued in the name of a group that calls itself, with defiant sarcasm, the Extraditables. It has adopted the slogan "Better a Tomb in Colombia Than a Jail Cell...
...brother, Mr. Sarcasm himself, kept to the political humour. "If Israel treats Palestinians like El Al treates its passengers, then we're talking serious human rights violations here," he said...
While the University recognized the separation decree as a smokescreen to divert attention from the proposed government restructuring plan and issued no official comment, students and student publications responded to the vote with sarcasm and derision...
Cottingham's first-act sarcasm is brutally funny, and the show moves along nicely under Brent Eller's direction. The plot is perfectly symmetrical. Will Susan choose reality with a family that doesn't love her, bland Marsala wine and a black lunch table? Or will she opt for the illusory world of dreams, champagne, a family that treats her like a goddess and a pristine white table with fine china? We feel for Cottingham, who has captured Susan's despairing loneliness and repression behind her cynical facade...