Word: soliloquy
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William's carefully chosen and meticulously directed choices bring the play up to date in a generally tasteful and effective manner. Macbeth delivers his "dagger soliloquy" under the influence of alcohol, and Shakespear's Porter becomes his soused bartender. Moreover, Birnam wood does not come to Dunsinane as camouflage of war, but rather through its use in the manufacture of the enemy's weapon...
Jennifer Breheny's Lady Macbeth is powerful and effective. She is cruel and icy, dressed to kill, (or to have others do some killing for her) and ready to meet her husband's doubts at every turn. her performance of Lady Macbeth's chilling Act II soliloquy is excellent...
...Diabetes, Efron steals the show with his clever timing, rich accents, witty facial expressions, and zany physical displays. In one particularly droll soliloquy, he flounders on his hands and knees, eyes pleading toward the sky, moaning "I'm tired, weary, sick...All around me men dying, war and misery, brother against brother...
...grand tableaux, whether symphonic or choral. It is a masterpiece in minature (it only lasts, on this recording, 20 minutes and 14 seconds). The characterization found in the arias of Adam and Eve in the "Creation" is present, but is transformed into the unilateral statement of a powerful soliloquy. The music, which is set to a libretto of unknown authorship, accompanies Ariadne's discovery of her abandonment at the hands of Theseus...
...BEST UNSCHEDULED SOLILOQUY BY AN ACTOR...