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James GrahamsInkandThe Lehman Trilogymake for an interesting comparative case study.
Its about journalism, after all, so questions are the marrow in its bones.
Theres a fifthW,of course:Why.
Is it the most important or the least so?
Murdoch and Lamb leave that question open for the time being.
The play, meanwhile, concerns itself withHow.
How and when, and why did the irreverent fun of it all start getting scary?
Carvel is a devilish delight to watch as Murdoch.
Brits in general are more comfortable as character actors, knowingly playing games with their own bodies and voices.
Americans tend to want to be serious heroes we get stuck in our heads and our feels.
Millers Lamb is a kind of Faust to the Mephistopheles of Carvels Murdoch.
Inkis at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.
