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Another very important character who changes throughout the course of the play is Miss Ronberry, played with much elegance by Catherine Gowl. Miss Ronberry is able to accept her status as a spinster by the end of the show, although in the beginning she desperately seeks a husband, flirting with the rich and handsome Squire (Alexis George Burgess, in another humorous role). By the end of the play Ronberry has become a devoted and caring teacher, one who has learned to think of someone besides herself and whose true pleasure in life is educating those who are less fortunate, ensuring...
...richest, strangest creature is Lucia, a twisted spinster who loves gay men (most especially her dead brother) with the desperation and security of caring for someone who can never accept her and thus never reject her. She thinks of herself, of course, as the one normal person. "You have a death wish," she tells Bill. "That's so selfish. I have one too, but I direct it toward others." Lucia could be just comedy's favorite device, the useful fool, but Kudrow makes her funny and sympathetic. Her body language is eloquent--she walks like a constipated stork when...
...greatest, but he is certainly the freshest, most confident new voice in the theater to come along in years. Beauty Queen, part of a trilogy set in the western Irish county of Galway, is a dark, beautifully crafted comedy-drama about the spiteful relationship between a fortyish spinster and her aged, acid-tongued mother, who thwarts the daughter's one chance at love. What makes the play so startling is its mix of old-fashioned dramaturgy--the plot hinges on an undelivered letter--and the chilling, unsentimental way in which it shows the casual cruelty people wield against each other...
...less talented hands this could have become a heavy-handed tract, but Mosley never stoops to propaganda. And while his characters often verge on the bizarre, they are leavened by a reaffirming dose of humanity: Domaque, the hunchback with a thirst for reading; Miss Dixon, a half-crazed white spinster whose whims determine the fate of black families unlucky enough to live on her land; Momma Jo, the hoodoo priestess who forces herself on Easy in a hilarious seduction scene. But overshadowing them all is the enigmatic Mouse, who combines terrifying bloodthirstiness with naive romanticism; he murders his stepfather...
Jane is a plain, spinster-like divorcee, brimming with outwardly cheerful criticisms of her daughter's college antics that fail to show her daughter that she does in fact care about her welfare. Her verbal shots are accompanied by jerky, robotic gestures that reveal an underlying tension but are somewhat artificial and unconvincing. Azalea is the flowering know-it-all. Stubborn and unreceptive to motherly advice, she snaps defensively in response to every comment. She is a liberated student who savors the right to drink a glass of wine at lunch, if only for the shock value...