Word: sides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moments where Martha shows her more sensitive, feminine side, Gunn performs with finese. Her seduction sequences with Nick are provocative. Her voice almost purrs and she does not merely walk, she saunters. At the end of the play, when she is left all alone, Martha reveals the tenderness that has remained hidden behind her tough exterior for most of the rest of the play. Gunn capably exposes Martha's major weakness, her deep love for George...
Rounding out this side of the family is Reid Cottingham as Kate, Eugene's loving, efficient, over-stressed mother. Cottingham is very effective. Her portrayal of this domineering character gives this production an underlying consistency which it might otherwise have lacked. The orders she gives her children are as mandates from on high. When Kate does, upon rare occasion, reveal her emotions, they are believable and evoke sympathy...
Creon (Peter Mitchell), Jason's father and ruler of Corinth, can be blamed for the relationship's messy breakup. Trying to be a good father, he looks out for his son's political best interests. He realizes that Medea is not from the right side of the Parthenon, so he sends her walking. Likewise, Medea's Nurse (Zoe Mulford) is looking out for her charge. Mitchell's hard-edged Creon is not exactly Heath-cliff Huxtable. But Mulford, with her sympathetic swooning and simpering, makes Mrs. Cleaver look like an absentee parent...
Granted, Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit is a funny play, but it's not exactly his funniest. Coward shows us his darker side in this play about a middle-aged man's troubled relationship with his two wives, one of whom has been dead for seven years...
Indeed, why should it? Holly Cate, in sparkly Jem doll-like attire, is the third player of this astral menage a trois and the menace behind this confusion. As Charles' deceased wife, she does every-thing in her power to win her husband over to the other side. Charles consequently calls Madame Arcati, played by the effervescent Valerie Steiker, upon the scene to exorcise Elvira's spirit from the house...