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...adversity came from Penn's first singles sport, a occupied by Venezuelan Dasis Cup team member Rudolph Scheller, the visitor's first couples team--which had beaten. Harvard twice this year--and the euphoria which followed Friday's key victory over Columbia...
Shamed and disillusioned by his only gods, medicine and himself, he has bolted from the hospital, gathered up his neglected wife (Phyllis Somerville) and possessively loved son (Damion Scheller), and taken them to the home of his father, a rural revivalist preacher (Hume Cronyn...
...there believing in us." Albee-like catharsis: "My only comfort is knowing that my life is actually as empty as it feels." Moreover, the equivocal closing scenes of reconciliation between the doctor and his father seem anticlimactic after the keenly perceived torments of his marriage. Somerville and Scheller ably play the wife and son, and Cronyn invigorates the ill-defined minister, but Waterston starts at so shrill and petulant a pitch that he has nowhere to go. In the big scenes, he flounders like a gaffed fish...
Like father Everett, wife Glory (Phyllis Somerville) and son Stephen (Damion Scheller) have to endure Sam's tiresome tirades. But while they help to highlight some aspects of Sam's character, they never become real characters in their own right. Empty-headed and beautiful, compassionate and forgiving, Glory remains inexplicably unperturbed when her husband announces his intention to leave her and take their son with him. She goes on smiling, fixing lunch and loving her dear...
...character of Stephen suffers from the same lack of definition. Playwright (and audience) can't figure out if he's five or 15: one minute he asks idiotic questions about the meaning of "Humpty Dumpty," and the next he lectures his father on the nature of moral responsibility. Scheller carries off some of the more moving moments of the second act with admirable aplomb, but it seems a crime to saddle a 13-year-old actor with such a large-and inconsistent--role...