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Article: TWO BRIANS; A Pair Ideally Weighted for `Godot'
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- The Washington Post
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- June 12, 1994
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Actors Brian Desmond and Brian Hemmingsen, both founding
members of the four-year-old Washington Shakespeare Company (WSC),
are currently playing existentialist clowns Vladimir and Estragon in
Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" at Gunston Arts Center. Having
appeared together as some of literature's oddest couples - Cassius
and Brutus in the WSC's cutting-edge production of "Julius Caesar,"
Astrov and Vanya in the company's "Uncle Vanya" - the pair have
developed a palpable sense of timing and rapport.
Offstage, the two Brians could not seem more different.
Desmond, 32, is rail-thin, cerebral, soft-spoken. Raised overseas,
he moved to Washington in the early '80s, landing roles with ...