The Reviews are In...
The review in today's Ottawa Citizen is actually quite good.
You can't seem to be able to get it off the site since you have to be a subscriber, but you can be certain that I rushed out to buy a copy as soon as I read my email this morning.
I don't know if there's some sort of copyright law that prevents me from pasting the article into my blog (if there isn't, someone please tell me and I'll post the whole thing), so I will simply leave you with a snippet of words from a M. Patrick Langston that were actually directed towards me:
"Nancy Kenny is especially good as the intellectually sharp but emotionally
starved Harriet, the child of a coldly efficient single mother (Janet Rice)
and the willing toy of a corporate superior, Paul Stuart, played with predatory self-absorption by Corry Burke."
While you're not suppose to take the critics too seriously, it sure is nice to get a little pat on the back from time to time.
You can't seem to be able to get it off the site since you have to be a subscriber, but you can be certain that I rushed out to buy a copy as soon as I read my email this morning.
I don't know if there's some sort of copyright law that prevents me from pasting the article into my blog (if there isn't, someone please tell me and I'll post the whole thing), so I will simply leave you with a snippet of words from a M. Patrick Langston that were actually directed towards me:
"Nancy Kenny is especially good as the intellectually sharp but emotionally
starved Harriet, the child of a coldly efficient single mother (Janet Rice)
and the willing toy of a corporate superior, Paul Stuart, played with predatory self-absorption by Corry Burke."
While you're not suppose to take the critics too seriously, it sure is nice to get a little pat on the back from time to time.
Labels: The Actor
posted by Nancy Kenny at
9:53 AM
3 Comments:
Congrats! If I were in the same timezone I'd be front row centre!
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Anonymous, at 10:20 PM
WE run for another 2 and a half weeks. You have plenty of time to come back :p
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Nancy Kenny, at 11:50 AM
Here's the full article on our Nancy!!!!.
Isn't It Romantic is timeless and affectionate, but dated: OLT's cast moves engagingly through Wasserstein comedy
The Ottawa Citizen
Thu 01 Jun 2006
Page: E7
Section: Arts
Byline: Patrick Langston
Source: The Ottawa Citizen
"There's nothing wrong with being alone," Harriet Cornwall tells Janie Blumberg at one point in Isn't It Romantic, the late Wendy Wasserstein's 1979 comedy, which opened Tuesday at Ottawa Little Theatre.
Harriet, in case you haven't been introduced, is a sexy and ambitious WASP mounting the corporate ladder.
Janie, Harriet's best friend and her polar opposite, is a frumpy, wisecracking Jewish girl caught between her basic laziness and lousy self-esteem and her aspiration to be a writer of note.
Problem is, despite Harriet's words of wisdom, being alone can get lonely.
So the two -- smart, educated New Yorkers in their late 20s -- ignore their better instincts, saddling themselves with outwardly successful but inwardly deficient men.
Add a bunch of other complications, not the least of which are mother-daughter issues and devotion to some feminist rhetoric circa the 1970s, and you've got the makings of an insightful, affectionate play that's at once timeless and dated.
Under director Caryl McKay, OLT's cast moves engagingly if sometimes self-consciously through its paces as the two women seek that precarious balance of self-fulfilment and a meaningful love relationship.
Nancy Kenny is especially good as the intellectually sharp but emotionally starved Harriet, the child of a coldly efficient single mother (Janet Rice) and the willing toy of a corporate superior, Paul Stuart, played with predatory self-absorption by Corry Burke.
Desperate for companionship, she no sooner comes to her senses and dumps her sleazy lover than she announces her engagement to another man. Determined to "have it all," as playwright Wasserstein blames some branches of feminism for encouraging, Harriet seems doomed to have very little.
Janie is smarter.
The conflicted product of a stereotypical middle-class Jewish family (that's what Wasserstein was), Janie -- a little underplayed by Christine Constantin -- endures the continual invasions of her flaky, overbearing mother (Sharron McGuirl, with an accent of indeterminate origin) and the subjugation of Marty Sterling, nicely portrayed by Mike Boeckler as her wheedling, condescending boyfriend.
Unlike Harriet, though, Janie decides that she really doesn't need a man in her life, at least for the moment, and seems well on the way to a satisfactory single life by the end of the play.
With 13 scenes over two acts, Isn't It Romantic presents staging challenges. Set designer Robin Riddihough has largely resolved them by dividing the stage into multiple sets, a nice visual metaphor for the continually shifting emotions and relationships of the play.
Isn't It Romantic continues at Ottawa Little Theatre until June 17. Tickets & times, 233-8948.
Edition: Final
Story Type: Review
Note: Theatre Review
Length: 421 words
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