But though Drogo's flesh was warm, and yielded pliably to handling, there was no breath in him, and the heart in his great chest, almost certainly pierced by the thrust from behind, was stonily still.

More pliably than Raul Julia's in the first production, the voice of Philip Hernandez glides with ease from soft lyricism to medium rock to a Caribbean beat, tempering Proteus's descent from Valentine's eternal friend and Julia's faithful lover to everybody's total fraud.

While his staid academic colleagues listen pliably to the lectures arranged by officials from the Russian national archives, Kelso encounters a fearsome man, Papu Rapava, who was once the bodyguard of Stalin's secret police chief, Lavrenti Beria, and then spent the mandatory 15 years in Siberia.