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| "As Ross, Antonie Knoppers is excellent. His Act II monologue avoids any touch of self-pitying rant. He displays subtlety and control as the character struggles with his own honesty and self-knowledge." Conne Meng. NPR, Syracuse "He's touchingly earnest and respectful, well bred and genuinly polite. Antonie Knoppers, strikingly tall and handsome, is aptly cast in this role, looking every bit the charming, fit, well-dressed and well-spoken young urban professional." Barbara Adams, Ithaca Times "As Ross, Knoppers is likeable, patient and terribly decent, gradually becoming more accustomed to Green's grouchy veneer, even gently teasing him. Knoppers makes Ross the perfect son. Even crusty old Green isn't immune to his charm." Barbara Adams, Ithaca Times "Director Robert Moss has a pair of fine acting talents to work with J.R. Horne and Antonie Knoppers and he uses them brilliantly....Moss has his actors giving subtle and nuanced performances....Knoppers has an appealing presence and also exhibits a nice touch for comedy, and he neatly under plays the character...It is very good work." Tom woods, Citizen. |
"Knoppers has in some ways a harder job. He's earnest without being cloying, righteous without stridency, and lamenting without a hint of whine.
Knoppers' Ross also achieves an arc of change by the final curtain" James
MacKillop, Syracuse New Times "Antonie Knoppers' gait, on the other hand, is athletic and light -footed, as much like a dancer's as a runner's. His Ross never bolts into Mr. Green's lair." James MacKillop, Syracuse New Times "In the second act, set at the villa, the ladies loosen up. thanks in part to the arrival of Antony Wilder (newcomer Antonie Knoppers), the handsome and sensitive owner of the villa." Jane Holahan, New Era "A wonderfully worked out play. Above all, the casting is dead on: the two actors compliment each other perfectly, so that all is plausible." Bill Liston, NPR |