Moody and estranged, the characters live in a "dense atmosphere of bitterness and failure," with "folds and folds of blankness between them".
Verbeek's somewhat quirky character estranged him from his players.
Each character is estranged from the world and has a hard time trusting others.
In 1963 she reunited with Wayne in McLintock!, in which she played the estranged wife of his character.
The typical Sebaldian character is estranged and isolate, visited by depression and menaced by lunacy, wounded into storytelling by historical trauma.
Nicholson's character is estranged from his daughter, Freeman's from his wife, and each takes a turn persuading the other to set things right, an interference that gives the actors a chance to display a little temper.
Most of the characters are estranged from conventional families and try to create familial bonds outside the boundaries of home.
His characters are estranged from the normal world of people and things and drift through shadowy, passive existences on its outskirts.
"And there are huge bits and pieces that I make up". For example, similarly to Adiagha in "Her Portmanteau," Ms. Udofia has a half sister who lives in Nigeria, though they are not estranged the way the characters in the play are ("In my heart, she is my sister").
A subplot involving phone calls between Mr. Bacon's character and his estranged wife clunks heavily.
In the drama, written by David Margulies and directed by Daniel Sullivan, she was to have portrayed the estranged wife of the leading character, played by Adam Arkin.
