Word: soliloquy
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Among the ladies, only Chalyce Brown can match his performance. As Mad Margaret, an envious witch and later wife to Sir Despard, she charges happily from wild laughter, to perfectly-controlled song to dreamy, moon-struck soliloquy. Sad to report, her part is smaller than her gifts...
...STRANGER. Italian Director Luchino Visconti (Rocco and His Brothers) has been fanatically faithful to Albert Camus' fine novel of alienation and despair, even to the point of including a long soliloquy on life, death and the meaninglessness of it all by the hero (Marcello Mastroianni), which mars an otherwise powerful film...
...Hamlet's own ego - epitomized in one scene in which Hamlet becomes a ventriloquist's dummy on his father's knee. Later, Hamlet also turns up as the Gravedigger, hiding behind a Latin accent; in this guise he delivers his "To be or not to be" soliloquy, thus turning the graveyard scene into a grisly essay on the meaning of death. The players' dumb show is omitted; instead, Hamlet lures his stepfather into mouthing the incriminating lines himself, until the drunken monarch suddenly stops in horror-struck realization of what he has said. The mindless bloodshed...
...times, Michael's actors give him admirable support. Tigar as Jaques is a large figure, touching and funny, and even his lugubrious soliloquy comes off well in the end. Newenhuyse's Adam is far funnier than it is wrong-headed. Norma Levin is a strong and charming Rosalind, playing her maturation for good laughs and better audience identification, emphasizing the quick intelligence of Shakespeare's heroine. Danius Turek is a triumph of physical casting as Orlando, a huge, handsome, stereotype sweetheart, his readings and emotional range consistently pleasing. As portrayed by Carolyn Firth, Celia is at once acid and naive...
...script contains some of the best satire written in the last decade. "So That's the Way You Like It," a parody of Shakespeare, is extraordinary funny; The miner's soliloquy, too, is hilarious...