Word: well-cast
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...most of the well-cast Peaches lineup (which includes Madonna as a sexually outre outfielder), playing in the league is pure pleasure, a larkish flight from hometown constraints. But Davis, an entrancing mixture of wariness, reserve and quiet gumption, finds something more in it, an authentic awareness of the ambiguity of the women's position -- they are being exploited, after all -- which requires a lifetime for her to resolve. That's good, and so is her abrasive relationship with a kid sister (Lori Petty), a pitcher on the team who resents her elder sibling's cool, dispassionate competence...
...supporting roles, Winsome Brown as the decrepit Madame de Rosemonde is amusing and well-cast. Ian Lithgow as Cecile Volanges' courter provides some comic relief...
Robert Donat garnered a Best Actor award for his well-cast portrayal of an English schoolmaster. A lonely and shy Charles Chipping (Donat) begins at the Brookfield School in 1870 as a young Latin teacher. Over his 58-year tenure at Brookfield, Chipping, endearingly called "Chips," rises to become the heart and soul of the venerable institution. On a hiking trip in Switzerland, Chipping meets and subsequently falls in love with Katherine Bridges (Greer Garson), Katherine adds the emotion and romance that has been missing in Chips' life...
Given the burdensome text of the play, its often trying twists and turns, and the demand for imagination rather than representation, the cast pulls it off rather well. Michelle Haner is well-cast as the youthful and somewhat spacey Alex, who flirts with the various characters encountered in "Terra Incognita" and has a deep penchant for the "slanguage" of 1955. Susan Gray maintains a prim conservatism throughout the play as Fanny, a young old-maid from the Midwest. Amanda Frye wields words well as Mary, a "passionate scientist" with a particularly obscure vocabulary and an inclination to corny eloquence...
...Roberts is well-cast as Mannus. With her defined and elegant features, she is almost immediately appealing on screen because she is so beautiful to watch. But her beautiful features are also expressive, and Roberts can act. Like Sutherland, she has a talent for simultaneous characterization; as Mannus, she is at once mechanical and vulnerable...