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...were startled to find a gold-roofed, three-story monastery beside a winding path. They were even more taken aback when a two-year-old boy greeted them with familiarity and addressed their leader, disguised as a servant, by the name of his temple in distant Lhasa. The mischievous toddler, who slept in the kitchen of a mud-and-stone house, would become the 14th Dalai Lama...
...then again, Ocon can't stop smiling when an overall-clad, smiling toddler sporting red patent leather shoes hugs her at the end of the day. And Payanzo has taken her role as a parent quite seriously. She won't even use baby-talk around Dylan for fear that she will stifle his intellectual development...
Point B is now, with Ocon scrambling for extensions, babysitters and sleep--the flip side of life as an undergraduate, whose main extracurricular activity is a bouncing, pale-blond toddler, with rice-cake crumbs streaked across her chin...
...Mmmm...you like baked beans, don't you?" Ocon coos to the high chair-strapped, squirming toddler. "Beans," she repeats...
Agave, played by Randy Danson, reminds the audience that the people of Thebes are not victims of circumstance--they brought about their own destruction. She acts like a child, not a proud hunter, bouncing on her heels and screaming like a frightened toddler, without even attempting to act like the matronly woman she must have been before her raving Bacchae days. The result is perfect: as with her arrogant son Pentheus, the audience only feels sorry for this nearly-insane woman, rather than deeply empathizing with a noble character of unfortunate circumstances...