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...Hughes hilarious satire of female and male sexuality and gender roles, the brilliant production it deserves. The noir-ish subject of the play is highlighted by zoot suit costumes, smoky ambiance and tricky lighting. Hughes' jokes are delivered with alacrity and the actors keep up with the fast-paced wit...
...talented cast (including Beverly D'Angelo as the woman who left Vinnie for Carter and James Gammon as the disgraced racing official) huffs and puffs but can't blow any life into these windy three hours. Shepard's wordplay lacks the wit and profane poetry of more accomplished practitioners like David Mamet. Simpatico is both coy and lazy: it invites the audience to fill in the gaps, to look for meanings. No thanks...
...fingernail. Four years of living in New Haven have toughened her up, given her an edge on life, made everything after Yale seem like a piece of cake. She could wrestle down a wild boar to save her children, brush herself off, and still be the epitome of wit at a dinner party at the Harvard Club that night...
...feisty. In fact, many cast members -- including Sir John Gielgud (Scarlett's grandfather) and Julie Harris (Rhett's mother) -- seem wasted on a story without much of a plot and a script devoid of sharp dialogue. Dalton is a sufficiently handsome Rhett, although he lacks the intelligence and wit of Gone With the Wind's Clark Gable. What's more, Dalton is not given resonant lines like the movie's "All we've got is cotton and slaves and arrogance." Instead he is obliged to say things like "You're trying to pass yourself off as a lady -- you couldn...
Jimmy's counterpart Cliff is a stoic, but Marmor takes this impertubability too far. Cliff may be a "noman's land" between Jimmy and Alison, but he is also clever, and Marmor sometimes allows humorous lines to go by without giving them the wit they deserve...