Mr. O'Brien has a high time putting his cast members (19 in this case, playing some 60 roles) through lightning changes of fairy-tale costume (by Charlotte Palmer-Lane) and exaggerated cartoon personas in their assorted roles as brigands and pimps and evil monarchs, while having them dance the dance of time to funkadelic music.
The exaggerated dimensions of the work are an immediate reflection of the icons' magnified personas versus the vulnerability of the souls behind them.
But her natural regality is at odds with the giggly, exaggerated "aw shucks" persona she affects.
Dury had yet to fully develop his exaggerated Cockney stage persona.
The more he becomes locked into an obsessively violent cycle, the more he adopts the exaggerated language and persona of a Shakespearean hero defending the honour of a noble friend.
Each of the three principal players dextrously suggests a slightly exaggerated, slightly bogus persona on first appearance, while allowing a sense of a more fragile, serious self to peek through.
She has a vibrant and assured stage presence, and she looks as smashing as she did as Tina Turner in the 1993 film "What's Love Got to Do With It". But her natural regality is at odds with the giggly, exaggerated "aw shucks" persona she affects.
When Doughty adopts her exaggerated "Ask a Mortician" persona, it is so glibly morbid as to be almost a caricature of the Portland-Bushwick axis of cool.
Van Der Beek told Vulture that he took a lesson from "How I Met Your Mother" star Neil Patrick Harris, who had some experience spoofing himself after turns in the "Harold and Kumar" franchise as "Neil Patrick Harris," an exaggerated version of his persona.
"Rumors of my persona are greatly exaggerated," he said.
She told Slate that the piece was just "kind of to take on the persona, a bit exaggerated, of someone who believes she's in an unrequited relationship with Robert Mueller," but when she wrote to me she didn't try to justify it as a complete piece of fiction: "Mueller has kept such a tight lid on the investigation, which is testament to what a strong leader he is," Dodes said.
