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The Word is Absurd

It's not really their fault if they stumble at places.

The actors try to be cucumber cool, Amidst a play which breaks each and every rule.

Sean Sebastian as Alceste has an edge to him that renders him sour,

He is both grouchy and mean, his acting most definitely has power.

Celimene, played by Ginna Carter, tries her best to be the perfect "soc,"

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Yet her affected apathy struck me as gauche.

Oronte (Todd Brun), one of Celimene's suitors,

Had an odd sort of Bugs Bunny accent in which he wooed her.

Celimene's spacy cousin, Eliante (Natasha Shapiro) is more of a ham, Despite a dress that makes her look like Miss Havisham.

Arsinoe (Eliza Rosenbluth) Celimene's back-stabbing pal,

Was played out most sinisterly to be a mean gal.

As for Philinte (Adam Hyman) and Celimene's other "Bo Fo" admirers, One wishes only that they could act with more fire.

Music director Gary Susman has an eclectic array of tunes to toot:

Beethoven's Seventh, Die Walkure, Mission Impossible and the "Pac Man" theme, to boot!

Yet the party most culpable for this theartrical arrest,

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