They followed it in 1959 with a BE production that muted the allusions to the rise of Hitler and played the script as a gangster farce.
Her break came straight after the Paris Conservatory, when Truffaut picked her – on the second reading, he hadn't liked the first – to play the script girl Joelle in Day for Night.
As a kind of late middle-aged counterpart to Arianda and Rockwell, Birney and Houdyshell, playing a hollowed-out couple, let their respective star qualities shine and flicker through a world of experience and emotional pain, allowing them to play the script on two levels: as the characters, and as themselves.
That sort of bullying never came across in The Deal's Mandelson, though I don't blame the actor - he was just playing to the script.
Ms. Haberle is also clearly considerably younger than Mr. Pendleton, which is jarring because the opposite was true of the historical figures they are playing, as the script specifically notes.
They have a lovely time playing with the script and with each other – Wilson with her pointy, pouty features and wonderfully manic energy, Gyllenhaal with his bushy beard and earthier charms.
Sheen, at 31, thought he would be too old to get to play "the best script I ever read" and adds: "It was obvious you were working with a genius".
The show serves as a vehicle for Tovah Feldshuh, who in addition to playing the title role wrote the script (with Larry Amoros and Linda Selman).
In Experiment 2, participants read a movie script before playing the game.
The very notion of "the times" plays into the script of the film in several smart ways.
