Kevin Davis (as Polyneices, Oedipus' son) and Jay Caldwell (as both Creon and the Deacon) give forceful performances that advance the plot in sorely needed ways.
On the first half of the program he gave forceful, bright-edged accounts of Haydn's Sonata in E flat (Hob. XVI 49) and Brahms's "Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel".
But many of Littlefield's relatives remained and two gave forceful victim impact statements, speaking directly to Routh, who mostly sat still and looked straight ahead towards the judge rather than turn to meet their gaze.
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(Isherwood) 'HAMLET' Michael Cumpsty gives a forceful, intelligent reading of the title role in the Classic Stage Company's likably intimate production of Shakespeare's tale of doom-struck Danes.
Having previously played Katharina at the Globe, Samantha Spiro as Lady Macbeth intriguingly suggests what might have happened to Shakespeare's shrew if she'd married a Scottish thane, and she gives a forceful, vehement performance, lapsing into credible somnambulism.
(Ben Brantley) 'An Enemy of the People' Boyd Gaines gives a forceful performance as Dr. Stockmann, the champion of truth who takes a principled stand against forces led by his brother, Peter (a sinister Richard Thomas), in Ibsen's meaty but talky drama about corruption in a Norwegian spa town.
(Grode) 'An Enemy of the People' (closes on Sunday) Boyd Gaines gives a forceful performance as Dr. Stockmann, the champion of truth who takes a principled stand against forces led by his brother, Peter (a sinister Richard Thomas), in Ibsen's meaty but talky drama about corruption in a Norwegian spa town.
(Brantley) 'An Enemy of the People' Boyd Gaines gives a forceful performance as Dr. Stockmann, the champion of truth who takes a principled stand against forces led by his brother, Peter (a sinister Richard Thomas), in Ibsen's meaty but talky drama about corruption in a Norwegian spa town.
