His ill-fated characters are forever being pulled downward by an uncontrollable force, more powerful than love or money, whose charm Bingham wisely never really explicates: it's just the thing, the shadow, a kind of bleak vocation.
Working with his long-time collaborator, David Ford, Hoyle has skillfully woven Shakespeare's text into his own treatment of the Fool, giving Lear's Shadow the kind of depth one might not normally expect to find in a monologue.
You're the unobserved observer, the watcher from the shadows, a kind of private eye.
In 1919 she envisioned "the shadow of some kind of form which a diary might attain to," organized not by a mechanical recording of events but by the interplay between the objective and the subjective.
"The eaves create a shadow and a kind of a soft screen in the engawa area," Mr. Kishimoto said.
I didn't think it was fair to have the shadow of that kind of success thrown on my family.
He had available to him the right to take the Fifth Amendment, which is what many people did, including Paul Robeson, but he felt that doing so had a suspicion attached to it, a taint of the suggestion of guilt, and he felt no desire to live with a shadow of any kind hanging over him.
