Your Darren is utterly perfect in his special brand of sincerity and unwillingness to believe Geoffrey could possibly appreciate him. I loved the way my mental image of the costuming monstrosities shifted paragraph by paragraph, always florid and yet containing their own manic sense.
One of the things that gets me about this story is the way that neither Darren nor Oliver really see Geoffrey as a human being. He's an actor -- and an incredible one -- but they really don't know him beyond that. These people need friends and they have colleagues, co-creators, and occasionally "People who are acting in my play."
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Date: 2008-06-18 11:53 am (UTC)One of the things that gets me about this story is the way that neither Darren nor Oliver really see Geoffrey as a human being. He's an actor -- and an incredible one -- but they really don't know him beyond that. These people need friends and they have colleagues, co-creators, and occasionally "People who are acting in my play."