Word: toning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wanda (Caroline Isenberg) remembers exactly what she was doing when Kennedy was shot. It is a moment frozen in time, a point from which her life's trajectory begins. Isenberg has a whiny, mournful voice, which tends to grate and becomes monotonous, but the tone does add to her air of wistful reminiscence. She believes in the story as in a myth, sees Kennedy as a Christ figure and a Camelot legend...
Ronis and Langsam seem to spread their wings and take flight, each going to new heights of expression, and taking the audience with them But others are less able to sustain the illusion Isenberg's tone of voice becomes distracting after a time; we wish she could be turned off like the TV newsreels her character must have constantly watched...
...usual tone of the squad is sarcastic and joking, the players turn serious when reflecting on the contributions of their two captains...
...England and the U.S., a small army of mediums appeared to read the future, speak with deceased relatives and pocket very material fees. With a detached, only faintly ironic tone, Brandon notes some of the more bizarre assurances offered by these experts in the occult: one seer reported that alcohol and cigars were present in paradise; Doyle, after consultation with psychics, wrote that in heaven, "nutrition is of a very light and delicate order." Golf, he thought, was likely to be played...
...hard to concentrate when few of the characters seem plugged into what's going on, either on the superficial level of scenery and props or the more essential one of tension and buildup. Cohen as Hedda has a good sense of time and tone, and her sudden still pauses are effective at first, but through too much of the play she seems merely to be walking from pose to pose; the intensity that could lead Hedda to destroy men's careers in her quest for "perfect moments" appears only in intermittent flashes. Raffi as Tesman and Linda Gray...