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Advertisement The Savoyard in this play is Tiberius Spriggs, a foppish 1920s-era theater critic who invites five unsuspecting theater folks and fans to his London flat for a murder-mystery parlor game.
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Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2023
This foppish dandy is the Penguin in the pantheon of Washington, D.C., DC Comics villains.
—Nina Burleigh, The New Republic, 16 May 2023
Hoult and Cage sell the toxic odd-couple dynamic well, but a sturdier story is required to fully support their performances, especially Cage’s operatic Dracula, who delights in terrorizing his foppish familiar.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2023
Keith Jameson has the keen character tenor and bit of fussiness for the foppish Frenchman Triquet.
—Dallas News, 2 Apr. 2022
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Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2023
This foppish dandy is the Penguin in the pantheon of Washington, D.C., DC Comics villains.
—Nina Burleigh, The New Republic, 16 May 2023
Hoult and Cage sell the toxic odd-couple dynamic well, but a sturdier story is required to fully support their performances, especially Cage’s operatic Dracula, who delights in terrorizing his foppish familiar.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2023
Keith Jameson has the keen character tenor and bit of fussiness for the foppish Frenchman Triquet.
—Dallas News, 2 Apr. 2022
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“Foppish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foppish. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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