He's a strange, bewildering character, possessed by demons that aren't the usual drink or existential melancholy, and a big believer in following his own thoughts and theories.
Add to the fray a bat who plays chess and a ballad-singing lothario and you have a bewildering character cornucopia that, against all narrative odds, the pair somehow negotiate the audience through.
He is also a Beckett veteran — in the last decade alone, Gambon has played the absurdist's often bewildered characters in "Eh Joe," "Endgame," and "Krapp's Last Tape".
For all the amusing raspberries Durang blows at melancholy, the play also provides a clever parallel to the seismic upheaval of industrialization, which the bewildered characters in Chekhov's "Cherry Orchard" could neither stop nor fully understand, even as it rendered them and their world obsolete.
Sex is always complicated, therefore always funny; Ruhl, however, never laughs at her bewildered, repressed characters, who are either lumbered by frustrations that they can't explain or reeling with a desire for which they have no words.
The trailer presents us with a bewildering array of characters, few of whom seem sympathetic.
My father's days at the bookstore are still punctuated by visits from a bewildering cast of characters, fewer than before.
At times the narrative threatens to get lost as it roams through the characters' bewildering memories and Wreaking's disorienting corridors.
In the first half, set in a nightmarish modern London, we are introduced to a bewildering mix of characters: militant youthful protesters, a coarse solicitor, an atheist academic, an American political emissary and his wife and the Tory prime minister who happens to be a lonely, post-Thatcherite woman.
Hitler's character remains bewildering, in the obvious mismatch between the extent of his miserableness and the capacity of his will to power, although perhaps it should not be — many other personal stories suggest that miserable people have the will to power in the greatest intensity.
Hitler's character remains bewildering, in the obvious mismatch between the extent of his miserableness and the capacity of his will to power, although perhaps it should not be many other personal stories suggest that miserable people have the will to power in the greatest intensity.
