Word: sparger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...actors handle the pressure of the roles and keep the audience's interest in the progression of their characters. Robert Levy gives the strongest characterization as the flamboyantly gay experimental actor, Sparger. At first, Sparger seems stereotypical, but as the play continues one sees that this is just a front for a truly painful and completely atypical past. Levy handles the comic and tragic aspects of his role with deftness and humor, carefully balancing the outrageous and the all-too-human aspects of Sparger's personality. Dana Gotlieb is subtly effective as Wanda, a substitute teacher for whom the assassination...
...able to lend much variety to her portrayal, and because Rona didn't go through much of a change until the Seventies, her obsessive rehashing of the Sixties is non-revelatory. When the spotlight settles on any of these three characters, one hopes it will soon move on to Sparger or Wanda...