Chelton was one of Eugène Ionesco's favourite actors and created several of the absurdist playwright's roles.
On the other hand, the characters who have the playwright's sympathy have real roles, and they are all well handled.
There is a ninth character, and Gwen Wooldridge takes full advantage of the playwright's penchant for illuminating servants' roles.
The cottage played a big role in the playwright's life and work, work that earned a Nobel Prize and four Pulitzer Prizes as well as setting a new course.
He is staying in the apartment of Neil Abbott Daniel Gerrolll), whose role here is the playwright's best invention.
David Eldridge (playwright): What role do you think living playwrights have in the modern theatre?
We might normally expect to see the playwright's daughter Hallie in one of these roles, but she has here opted to play the decent daughter-in-law.
This is the play's only significant female role, which tells us something, I think, about the playwright's youth.
Ms. D'Angelo's Rosie is a slithering 1940's-style 1940's-style who suggests the playwright's reinvention ofemmee Greer in one ofatalemost elegantly slimy film-noir roles.
Mr. Havel's subsequent role as a dissident led to intensely personalized one-act plays about the plight of the playwright's alter ego, whom he called Ferdinand Vanek.
