Word: somnambulistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Belle-Linda Halpern, who plays Charlotte Corday, the fiery young woman who stabs Marat to death is at the same time a groggy somnambulist who can barely wield a knife: she shuffles about in circles and slumps to the floor while delivering impassioned soliloquies. Funny yet frightening, pitiful yet majestic, Halpern's performance is haunting. Christopher Moore is the "lucky paranoiac" who gets to play Marat. Suffering from a skin disease, the feeble and pinched looking Marat crouches in a bathtub. His fervent speeches sound simultaneously noble and pathetic as he bleats them in a madman's wavering voice. Although...
...back until at last you are beyond its reach. Only the pat when you were happy is real." But she, like Walker, has trouble with subtle mood shifts and often flattens her role by overplaying it. When under the influence of drugs, she flits about the room like a somnambulist, babbling in a sing-song voice; all of a sudden, however, she whirls around and responds lucidly to the accusations of her husband and sons with a biting, harsh tirade...