He brings menace and pathos to his role without camping it up, even when he is listening to Willie Nelson or driving down Norfolk country roads in a ridiculous yellow radio van.
Shaw's production, enacted on a split-level platform in Tom Pye's clean design, lit by Peter Mumford, bristles with detail: the maid who trips on the bottom stair, the housekeeper who brings menace to the simple act of carrying a tea-tray.
The softly-spoken but determined champion, born in Bow and raised in Limerick, brought quiet menace and the threat of a dramatic finish; Saunders, the challenger, all energy and edgy aggression, had come for a night of educated boxing.
Flood arrived when Scotland were flagging but he brought a menace and an attraction to risk that have long deserted his former mentor.
(Sinagra) JUDAS PRIEST, QUEENSRYCHE (Tonight) Rob Halford has brought his menacing baritone and dog-whistle howl back to the seminal late-70's British heavy-metal band that famously tried to carry on without him.
Patrick Lynch brings swarthy menace to the role of Pedrosa, lustful chief of police.
The situations can be funny but the character is not and I think Steven will bring real menace and real understanding.
"This is a signal to both Pakistan and the West that India is serious about doing whatever it takes to bring this menace to an end," he said.
Meanwhile, Tim Roth brings arrogant menace to his portrayal of Alabama governor George Wallace, Stan Houston is assured as the embittered, trigger-happy sheriff Jim Clark, and Dylan Baker fleetingly creepy as J Edgar Hoover, whose FBI wire taps and intercepts provide paranoia-inducing onscreen punctuation.
This is a subtle and ingenious variation on the princely spider – an interpretation that makes him a perpetually disturbed and excluded adolescent – but it does not bring dynamic menace to the evening, and that is crucial for one of Shakespeare's most exciting plays.
