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Richard Gelula, executive director, National Sleep Foundation. "[The candidates] should be very careful about their diet. They're going to want to script themselves well and stick to subjects they're familiar with because they're likely to make errors and have difficulty maintaining a continuity of thought...
...Although the seriousness of the script sometimes requires long, intellectual exchanges between Gary and Juliet, the emotionalism of several supporting actors refreshes the stage at key moments. Daniel Berwick '01, who directed last semester's Jesus Christ Superstar, is well cast as Gary's angry father. His deep voice and subtle acting make the intensely angry and abusive character believable. He has the confidence the part of Henry requires. His concerned wife is played by Edith Bishop '00. Her role is given little room for development by the script, but she nonetheless brings real pathos to the blank sympathy...
...bound to the plot with hoops of steel, she gets to play the always-welcome role of explainer, which she does with maturity and a small dose of convincing senility. Theodora Konetsovska, a visiting student from Williams, plays the ghost of Gary's dead sister, Sarah. The script calls for too many appearances of Sarah's ghost for her role to be as poignant as it could, but Konetsovska deals with her ubiquity by creating a dynamic, puzzling ghost who is as much a part of the unfolding drama as the live participants...
...Director Karin Alexander '02 has united these roles into a compact, efficient drama. Her actors seem at ease with their parts, and the intricacies of Kornhaber's themes are clearly born out in elegant, carefully paced sequences. The remarkable seriousness of Kornhaber's prize-winning script challenges both the actors and the director to bring two or three days of violence, revenge and love to life, and to make it believable and immersive. They go a long way towards doing the latter, and more impressively, they succeed at the former...
Walking into a movie starring a member of the "Friends" cast is always interesting. I normally expect total ineptness and a hackneyed script trying to play upon the comedic strengths of the cast member while never truly moving away from the feeling of a half-hour sitcom. While The Whole Nine Yards does many things well, it suffers from the same airiness...