Saints and Sinners.(A Man for All Seasons)(Theater review)

In Robert Bolt's 1960 hit "A Man for All Seasons" (now in a Roundabout Theatre Company revival, at the American Airlines, under the direction of Doug Hughes), Cardinal Wolsey (Dakin Matthews) asks Sir Thomas More (Frank Langella) a question that is meant to wrong-foot him. "Take you altogether, Thomas, your scholarship, your experience, what are you?" he says. More can't answer, but I can. He's a cartoon. Before the play begins, a large pen-and-ink drawing of More and his extended family hangs over the stage; once the screen flies up and the plot and the dialogue kick in, the image quickly proves to be an apt metaphor for the play's sketchiness. Even the wooden beams and ...