Word: soliloquys
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...Paola's revelation. Paola, delighted, announces she has won the duel and has proved that life is rotten. O no, cries Lucille, and producing a phial of poison, she kills herself, to prove, so she says, that the world has purity and worth. Exit Paola. Barbette delivers a soliloquy to the corpse about what beasts men are, meanwhile purloining Lucille's jewelry. Curtain...
...dull, complaining man. One does not find in this Vanya the education with which Astrov credits him, nor the profound melancholy the others are constantly pointing out. His philosophy comes out flat; if there is one scene in the play that is disastrously bad it is his soliloquy early in Act II, where, instead of protest at a wasted life we hear the grumbling complaints of a bore...
After a generation of working for other people's publications, Stone decided he'd been "carrying on a soliloquy inside a telephone booth." He tired of researching news that city editors wouldn't print. He yearned for a job that wouldn't ask him to soften his view, to be a promoter or a salesman; a job in which he would be totally responsible for all his misdeeds. He longed to be a guerrilla warrior. But offering a "good left opposition" inside the New Deal was a thing of the remote past; by the Haunted Fifties, America's left hand...
William Buckingham's merry set proclaims the play a pageant. An inspired Touchstone could have made it one If, in his first soliloquy, he had won the audience, the runnings about of the next two hours would have had coherence. But Peter Charles Johnson didn't have the necessary flair. He was convincing as an honest craftsman, but no more...
...never builds to any turning point. It is easy to miss some of his crucial lines. If Williams meant Danton to seem to be playing a role, he almost succeeded. But he never gives us a patch of sincerity to contrast the act with. Even in the lovely prison soliloquy, Danton's character remains ambiguous...