And Janie Taylor (a debut) had it throughout "Dybbuk": you felt her character's crying soul, her psychic need.
Kate Martin, head ranger for the National Trust at Formby, remembers the first time she heard seals as a child, "and being petrified by the sounds of what I thought was drowned souls crying out from the watery depths, until my Mum told me that it was just the grey seals calling to each other on the rocks below".
The separatists' March 2000 site, the top one, appears to show a thousand damned souls crying out in pain and horror, trapped inside the Bloc Quebecois logo.
The hand then pushes down hard on a bunch of the ducks, and the resulting collective scream sounds like a million souls crying out in agony all at once, only filtered through a kazoo.
In Iraq, under the old regime, fedayeen militiamen and other fanatics used to cry, "My soul and blood I sacrifice for you, O Saddam!" The soccer fans changed only the last word: their souls and blood would be sacrificed for Iraq.
I could wax eloquent about the soul crying out for something artistic amid all the science, and the bond of friendship your forge with your cast-mates, and all that, but really, that's all BS.
Read "Its not me thats crying Its my soul" in a teenager's exercise book and you wouldn't be likely to nod gravely over the sentiment for very long.
Stumble blindfolded onto the stage of the Walter Kerr Theater, where that extraordinary revival of "The Seagull" is now playing, and the first toes you step on will belong to a soul crying out for connection.
The bad stuff - say, a comedy about the aftermath of Hiroshima (I'm not making that up) - leaves your soul crying out for something sublime, or at the very least a play that allows you to use your brain a little and gives your heart muscles a workout.
