The weak women, well played by Marlene Sidaway (Jorgen's aunt) and Cecily Hobbs (Lovberg's devotee) balance the excesses of Hedda's behaviour and James's acting. The production needs to find pitch and purpose.
Mr. Howard tosses out a number of theories, even suggesting that Dame Cecily might have led Chaucer on and then filed charges, but he concludes that it is just as possible our first great poet was a rapist.
Note the peculiarly modern use of the word 'entrapped' and Cecily's near borrowing from Lear in 'Never, never, never'.
Cecily Tyson portrays Richardson's grandmother.
The suit, filed Monday, against Secretary of State March Fong Eu by the Draft Cuomo for President Committee was scheduled for a hearing Friday before Presiding Judge Cecily Bond of the Sacramento County Superior Court.
It is no disrespect to Susannah Harker's Gwendolen to say that this is the first time that Cecily seems to be the better part.