Word: stotland
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...Hanna Stotland...
Late in the second act of The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, when Hanna Stotland (Harvard Law School) as Beatrice proclaims (more to the audience than to the other actors on stage), "I hate the world... I hate the world...", the audience might reply that this point is already abundantly clear...
...premises, the idea that Tillie would create an science fair-winning set of marigolds which had been exposed to certain types of radiation, is somewhat implausible, the scenes of the play focus not on such plot-driving points, but on the interactions between Tillie's bitter, estranged mother (Stotland), Tillie and her sister Ruth (Jamie Smith...
...shining exception to this is the work of Smith as Ruth, who intelligently centers her performance on the identity of her character and delivers her lines as the character. Stotland is not so fortunate--she rarely transcends a simple line-reading and performs with little emotional variation, save a certain modulation of volume with which she attempts to point out to the audience which lines are important...
...actors may have fared better had the makeup design made some pretense of realistically defining the characters' ages. Alas, the audience is thus left to wonder how Stotland could possibly be the mother of Jump and Smith, save for the fact that she walks more slowly and speaks without the breathy, childish tone that Jump seems to mistake for the way high school students actually speak...