Word: sternhagen
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...Room takes place in the cozy, mangy flat of Mr. and Mrs. Hudd. Mrs. Hudd (Frances Sternhagen) tongue-rattles along at a great rate-about the icy weather through which her husband (Clarence Felder) must drive his van, about the unoccupied basement apartment she fears is occupied, about the tea and toast and trivia that mortise daily life. The landlord, who may not be the landlord, enters and reminisces about his mother and sister, who may or may not have been Jewish. After the landlord and the husband depart, a young apartment-hunting couple intrude with the disconcerting news that...
...performed, a happy tour de farce. Donald Moffat, in the role of John Tarleton, the self-taught underwear tycoon, is the image of Shaw's young old man, the drawing-room atheist who quotes his chosen gospels: "Read Ibsen. Read Dickens. Read Whatshisname." As his daughter Hypatia, Frances Sternhagen seems to have been born with a riding crop in hand and the conviction that the pursuit of a mate is the most exciting form of fox hunt. James Greene is cringingly comic as a socialist underdog who yearns to bite the hand that feeds...
...maintaining himself as both a loathsome creature and a dilettante of debonair charm. He did not falter. The quiet, brooding force of Robert Evans acted as a good foil for Mephistopheles, and Evans handled his long monologue in the first act with superb skill. Margaret, as played by Frances Sternhagen, was a triumph of sincerity. The difficulty of the Mephistopheles role is that the devil has a thousand faces, all of which he plays to the hilt. In a way Margaret's part is even more challenging, for she must show a great development of character. To say that...