Aimless and shoddily structured, it is among Mr. Greenberg's most ineffectual plays, lacking the conviction to take the leap into absurdity or the focus for sharp satire.
He may also help on the Rangers' ineffectual power play, which has scored 15 goals and allowed three for a net of 12, the second-lowest total in the Eastern Conference.
It's a rollicking tale of a band of pleasant pirates and their well-intentioned but ineffectual captain (played by Hugh Grant).
Two years later, he made his first professional appearance in London, in Rain Before Seven at the Arts Theatre, and then featured in a series of West End plays, usually playing ineffectual older characters.
When war was declared, he made well-meaning but largely ineffectual efforts to play his part, such as taking a team of bloodhounds to Belgium to search out wounded men.
No wonder the Italian government coupled him together with Jeremy Irons (who appears in Stealing Beauty as one of Tyler's drooling admirers) when handing out those Valentino gongs: both have recently played ineffectual, superannuated lovers who dote on pubescent Lolitas.
The show displayed its first-strike capability in pieces like "The Wrath of Farrakhan," a "Star Trek" parody that blew up into something much bigger: Mr. Wayans's brother Damon was Farrakhan, the nemesis of a hammy, ineffectual Captain Kirk, played by Jim Carrey.
The market was small, and after years of lousy play and ineffectual management, the fans had vanished.
The program included "No Exit," which looked like a parody of a love triangle when it was called "Chimera" but, as the current title suggests, is a digest of Sartre's play, although ineffectual.
