Mr. Erdogan's family is originally from Rize, on Turkey's northeast Black Sea coast, a region famous for its hardheaded characters.
"Lifespan of a Fact's" confrontation boils down in director Leigh Silverman's lucidly handled, 90-minute production, on a utilitarian set by Mimi Lien, to a test of wills and three distinct perspectives articulated by a trio of hardheaded characters.
"There is something about them I have not seen before, nor felt before," Le Viste's hardheaded business agent remarks, and many other characters in the novel reveal salient aspects of their personalities through their reactions to Nicolas's ladies.
They are made of people and myriad of characters: the bold ones, the hardheaded ones, the goofy ones, the talkative ones, the relentless ones all cemented together by that infectious passion for the game.
In fact, a case for these efforts can be made on hardheaded self-interest alone.
She's a wonderful character who, while amusedly aware of her fatal attractiveness, delivers many of the book's most hardheaded, stringent lines.
The central characters are the rakish, selfish and relentlessly fertile Lord Berrybender, his tempestuous daughter Tasmin and her equally hardheaded husband, Jim, a gun-toting religious mystic.
With judicious affection, he captures the contradictory character of Victoria, at once "almost painfully honest and capable of the most devious machinations, prudish and tolerant, hardheaded and sentimental".
