Word: sebastians
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...tertulias (discussion groups) in their ducal palace to which Goya came, along with the best writers and wits in Madrid. From the Countess of Chinchon, pregnant, dithering and infinitely vulnerable in her misty white mass of sprigged muslin, to the level, sagacious gaze of his friend the art collector Sebastian Martinez, Goya left on record an extraordinary sequence of human presences...
...play centers on the death of Sebastian Venable and the conflicting stories that arise out of it. Mother Venable--who was not present at the time--has one story, and Catharine Holly--her niece, who witnessed the death and who was put in a mental asylum by Venable--tells another, more offensive version. Both stories suggest that Sebastian's sexual character, not to mention sexual orientation, was some what dubious...
...then there is the doctor again. Williams specifies that this character should be a handsome blond. At first, such instructions appear trivial, considering that they do come from an author who describes even the design of the plates in The Glass Menagerie. But later, when Sebastian's sexual proclivities are questioned and when Mrs. Venable tells the doctor that her son would have liked him, these stage notes become quite important. Catherine even comments, "Cousin Sebastian was famished for blonds," calling herself and Mrs. Venable his "procuresses...
...Sean Sebastian as Alceste has an edge to him that renders him sour...
...about poor Alceste (Sean Sebastian), who is smitten...