Word: thespianism
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Jean Anouilh's script is responsible for much of the difficulty, however. For a high school thespian group this play can be challenging and instructive. To be anything more sophisticated than a pleasant junior class play, though, the acting must be superb and creative...
...story is so amusing that it would be worth seeing even if performed by the Scranton High School Thespian Society...
...Texans, the thespian kind. See EDUCATION...
Edwin Booth (by Milton Geiger) is José Ferrer, and never the twain connect. This farrago of many scenes is nothing resembling a play; this thespian in many costumes evokes no once-great actor. Something has been borrowed from the legend of the Mad Booths, and something from the lives, to which have been added puns, pomposities, and speeches from Shakespeare's plays. In an atmosphere of swig-and-spout, Old Junius and Young Ned part company in California; Ned, amid rehearsals, finds romance with Mary Devlin; John Wilkes Booth shouts his Latin and is the assassin...
...said to have won over back-country Floridians by malapropian innuendo. Gasped Smathers righteously: "Claude Pepper is known all over Washington as a shameless extravert! Not only that, but this man had to matriculate before he could go to college, and he has a sister who was once a Thespian in wicked New York. Worst of all, it is an established fact that Mr. Pepper, before his marriage, habitually practiced celibacy...