�Tropical Depression (there are no Kates involved)� was the title and/or theme of Sunday night�s hugely enjoyable 29 1/2 Hour Playwriting Festival...Plays are written, rehearsed and performed in the time it takes most of us to come up with half of an idea. There were eight plays in all, including �Casting Slouch� by Lorne White, �What�s in a Name?� by Jes Gonzales, �Cause and Kate-fect� by Nina Breton, and �Underwater� by Crom Saunders. "
"Our viewpoint character is a well-intentioned, seriously overworked administrator played by actress Nina Breton (whose ability to communicate her character�s rising frustration through a world-weary gaze is worth the price of admission)."
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"The play takes place on a college campus in rural Vermont where Sarah Daniels (Nina Breton, in a remarkably open performance) has been hired as dean of students."
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"(Director Adrienne) Sher has great praise for Nina Bret�n, who plays the lead character, Dean Sarah Daniels. �She�s an extremely intelligent actress, which frequently you don't want because intellect doesn't generally help you, but in her case it really does. Anything we talk about, any theme or personal characteristic in one scene, the next time she comes back in all those threads will be woven through all the scenes."
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"Luther Hanson's production is fueled by strong lead performances...The story's hero, Edmond Dant�s (the commanding JJ Charlesworth), is a young sailor on the verge of receiving a captaincy and marrying Mercedes (the excellent Nina Breton)."
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"On The Razzle"....
"Mainly involved in the clerks' exploits are the excellent Breton as the sophisticated dressmaker and classy Katharine Pappa as Frau Fischer, an attractive client at her shop."
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"Nina Breton and Katherine Pappa contribute nicely as middle-aged fraus mixing it up with the two clerks."
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"Nina Breton is the head of a temp agency that tells it like it is. She instructs her new hires that they don�t have to care, they don�t have to work hard and they don�t have to respect their temporary positions. And why should they? �Temporary employees are like toilet paper. They don�t pay you enough to care,� she says. Breton gets big laughs when she describes meaningful work, pensions and good pay as �delusions for co-dependent morns,� but the humor cuts deep when she observes that this country has �a workforce so transient it makes the Joads look stable.�"
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"Catherine (Nina Breton), the youngest sister, is a high-strung, drug-addled tart, who has stumbled through a long succession of failed sexual affairs. She has been an out-of-the-loop member in this family, guessing correctly that she had been an unwanted last addition.
In this role Breton almost steals the show. She throws herself about the stage shamelessly, making mind-blowing personality changes in an instant. But even with such bravura hysteria, she never goes over the edge."
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"Nina Breton's Catherine, the self-absorbed and romantically foolish youngest sister, is as annoying and lovable as a kid sister can be."
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