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Mr. Letts allows Teach's vulnerability to show as well.
When Blackbeard was killed off the coast of North Carolina, slavery was still legal in the United States, and a third of Teach's loyal crew was black.
As Donny, Mike McShane is so low-key as to barely register, and Ben Keaton misses Teach's wired rage by a mile.
His Donny is a staid, dominating anchor to Teach's flibbertigibbet, the George Burns, if you will, to Mr. Leguizamo's Gracie Allen.
Such an approach saps the strength of "American Buffalo," which should be sustained by Teach's fierce, delusional energy, until it is punctured in the play's final moments.
Teach's arrival is heralded by a clattering overture of stomping and knocking, and the noise disrupts the drowsiness of its opening minutes, listlessly occupied by Donny and his young protégé and sometime assistant, Bobby (Mr. Osment).
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