Three photographs of Newton at 16 -- one with three girls, the others posing with cameras in Yva's studio -- convey the self-assurance of a young man who, he readily admitted, was spoiled by his wealthy parents.
The cast, which also includes Anne L. Nathan and Michael Pemberton as Tom's vigilant best friends, is expert at conveying the self-consciousness that comes with such bumbling attempts.
In "Ach wie flüchtig, ach wie nichtig" ("Oh how fleeting, oh how trifling") the orchestra even conveys the self-important bustle of an urban crowd.
He made words matter and conveyed the self-delusion of thOis likable laughingstock, a character convinced that his girth is actually an imposing physique with natural appeal for cultured women.
He also conveys the self-loathing of a man who is aware of his own moral shabbiness in seeking to save himself by ditching his wife and putting his old father back on the halls.
Mr. Rothenberg, who provided a memorably boyish Stanley Kowalski in the recent Kennedy Center revival of "A Streetcar Named Desire," affectingly conveys the self-sabotaging impulses of someone afraid to hope.
Emma Hall, the youngest member of a theatrical dynasty, distinguishes deftly between Phaedra, Aphrodite and Artemis, David Shields conveys the self-regarding arrogance of Hippolytos, Martin McGlade's Theseus is all-tearing temper and Emma Amos is subtly persuasive as the Nurse, urging her mistress "to lie back and enjoy it".
But his early promise has been more than fulfilled; at 54, he remains a literary phenomenon - his last novel, Never Let Me Go, is currently being made into a film starring Keira Knightley - and in person he conveys the self-contained confidence of a writer who knows his new work, Nocturnes, will be another major publishing event.
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Damon is as likable an American actor as we have and ideally cast to convey the pleasing self-confidence and intrepid sense of humor that characterized Watney in the book.
The literal translation, "pretty/ugly," and the dictionary definition, "a good-looking ugly woman," both fail to convey the feat of self-transformation that it represents.
