spryness

Staged in the round, this modern version of “An Enemy of the People” preserves the period atmosphere of Ibsen’s 1882 drama but allows the work a modern spryness.

And yet the play sustains a spryness of tone.

The imaginative spryness of the design team is as instrumental to the production’s success as the nimbleness of conductor Kazem Abdullah, who expertly guides the orchestra through African, Muslim and American styles.

Morton brings a refreshing comic spryness to Lear, playing him not as a doddering old man but as a vivacious, scampering jokester who expects to be treated as the life of the party.

Sadly, much of Roks’ spryness on the course did, though, as he crept into his mid-40s and his golf game deteriorated.