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...suitably unctuous. Harriet is ambitious and serves well as the straight woman for many of the jokes on Yiddish pronunciation that had the Loeb Ex audience laughing out loud at the play. Claire Ellis turns in a convincing performance as the corporate achiever Lillian Cornwall, Harriet's motn. Bill Selig and Mark Fish were both serviceable in their supporting roles...
First Night revels in its dream-like nature, almost as if it is showing how much fun fantasy can be. As the straight man in the play, Irish Catholic Danny Fleming (Bill Selig), a clerk in the video store, declares the he is going to give up his dreams and lead the normal life destiny apparently has in store for him. Soon the audience becomes more and more convinced that rather than repressing his fantasies, Danny is actually constructing the entire play from Danny's fertile imagination. Selig reacts convincingly to the series of improbable events, portraying the tension between...
...plant seems to call for a dream-like surrealism to explain away the improbable series of events, and this is lacking in this production. At many points, Haahr ceases to be lovable and becomes merely annoying. Selig and Haahr spend too much time wandering around the set with no apparent purpose, screaming their lines at each other in an excited shriek. Both characters often seem to be engaged less in witty verbal sparring than in shrewish quarreling. The fault here lies with director Alexander Franklin and Elisabeth Mayer, who seem to lose control of the play's pace. The dialogue...
...play works best on the level of frantic comedy. Here, the high level of tension succeeds in its task. Both Selig and Haahr have an excellent sense of comedic timing, and play off each other well. They successfully embody "typical" Boston Catholics, and then gently poke fun at these same stereotypes...
...fearsome stick of team salary caps. The probable result: small-market teams like the Pirates could afford to sign more free agents, but the salary cap would likely mean that overall player salaries would be frozen at something near current levels. "Partnership" is the new owner buzzword, for as Selig puts it, "We need to have a mature and reasoned partnership with the players...