Word: starrs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most of the acting in this show proves to be consistently superb. Both Heather Gunn (Martha) and Michael Starr (Nick) give tremendous performances...
...STARR does a fantastic job in the role of Nick. His stage presence is good; whether he is sitting or standing his movements simply flow. And this aspect of Starr's performance makes Nick believable because Nick is a consummate athlete who is completely comfortable with his body. In the opening scenes, Starr acts as a great straight man for the sarcastic, verbal abuse that Anthony Korotko Hatch (George) dishes...
...14th century France, when the Black Plague was turning Europe into a mass graveyard, Noses tells the story of one Father Flote, a priest with revolutionary ideas about the role of religion in people's lives. Flote, played with amazing grace by Michael Starr, rebels against the penitents and clergy who argue that the plague is God's punishment for humanity's sins. The only way to save the world, say the penitents, is through pain--self-inflicted or otherwise...
...STARR plays Flote as a religious fanatic with simple faith. Though Starr has difficulty when it comes to singing, at other times his voice is appropriately tremulous and sincere...
Allison told the approximately 30 students assembled in Starr Auditorium that no matter who is elected president, the school would not suffer from brain drain. He said most professors feel "a professional responsibility to the school," and that only a few professors would be leaving for Washington in any event...