This was undoubtedly what made him the glorious character actor he became, able to impersonate Truman Capote's fey presence as effectively as he portrayed the prototypical American con man in "The Master".
The art of timing a comedy is a glorious dance between actor and audience, a two-step of unspoken dialogue, trust and risk, precariously balanced on a tightrope of suspended disbelief.
The most enticing aspect is a most glorious roll of actors – just beginning with Catherine Tate and Nina Sosanya.
Picking favourites is difficult, but irreverent best friends Poussey ("Accent à droite, bitch!") and Taystee ("This ain't The fucking Help") have a glorious chemistry – the actors are real-life school friends – and share some of the show's funniest scenes, lampooning the staid love-lives ("really quiet sex, every night at nine") and pretensions of privileged inmates.
It was a glorious experience, the actors were all fantastic, the director was amazing, the theater, The Mahaiwe, was beautiful, like a Broadway theater, the audience was packed, the laughter was like medicine.
"It's delightful to be among such a glorious group of actors... I'm going to go on record and say we're going to knock your socks off".
(Ben Brantley, writing in The New York Times, remarked on the actor's "glorious study of the doomed prince").
A dozen characters, played by the inevitably glorious assortment of British actors, crisscross in an astonishingly fluid game of cat's cradle, bringing this small town miraculously to life but never straying too far, or too absurdly, from the narrative through line.
But Mr. Luhrmann's decision to keep Shakespeare's glorious language and let his actors speak it with their own American accents was a winner.
At the Royal Court in London, four older actors are simply glorious in Escaped Alone, a brilliant, unnerving play written by a woman in her 70s, Caryl Churchill.
