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"…Cross" is based on the notion of setting Dostoyevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov" in the filmnoir genre. It is a partly lyrical - partly humorous, affectionate homage in which a moral yet immoral private detective must maintain his personal code of honor and discover the Truth despite the dangers (and/or pleasures) of a femme fatale, international art smugglers, hostile cops, a lascivious librarian, the ghost of his ex-partner and his brother, a well-intentioned monk.
A SHADOWED CROSS/b> takes the main characters from Dostoyevsky's i>"The Brothers Karamazov"/i> and sets them loose in a filmnoir setting. It is a comic homage to its sources, but decidedly i>not/i> a spoof. For, these are real characters with real desires however much the world of the play, and the language in it, is heightened.span> This heightening contributes to both the comedy and a vernacular poetry. /span>
div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">Furthermore while the source materials are both from the cinema and literature, the play itself | |  | | All Things Chicken
"…Chicken" is a comic vaudeville in which two guys talk about profound
things in profoundly foolish ways. It is my version of "Waiting for Godot" but set in a wasteland of
fast food restaurants and diners.
In u style="">ALL/u>/b>u style=""> THINGS CHICKEN/u>/b>, two guys talk about profound things in profoundly foolish ways. They obsess. They spar. They ask the big metaphysical questions: should they eat barbeque or fried chicken?
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This play is a serious farce - for beneath this seemingly light entertainment is contemplation of class, gender roles, the nature of love and mortality itself. But on the surface, it is a romp, a hotchpot of mistaken identity, physical buffoonery, vulgarity, rhymed couplets, alliterations and word play (e.g. “I must snare this hare before she becomes rabidly aware.”): a fractured fairy tale for adults culminates in an increasingly frenetic, farcical series of reversals.
p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> /span>“u style="text-underline: words">The Master and the Magician/u>,”/span>/i>/b>span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"> is a romp, a farc |
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