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Tag: Vol. 35 No. 17
Issue of Jan. 19 – 25, 2006
Posted inArts & Culture
Life and Limb
Keith Reddin’s uncompromising 1984 black comedy offers a bleak look at damaged goods in the optimistic Eisenhower era, chronicling the bad breaks befalling a one-armed Korean war veteran afflicted with post-traumatic stress disorder and a confused, unfaithful wife. (The Iraq fiasco makes the play all too contemporary.) As if earth weren’t noxious enough, the couple […]
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The Misfit Farmer
John Peterson didn’t get along with his neighbors, but he refused to move even after he practically lost the family farm. Now he runs a successful organic farming operation–and his neighbors still don’t like him much.
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Letter Purloined
My brain hurt after this show, but I’ve never felt so good about falling into a state of utter confusion. David Isaacson’s smart, funny script is divided into 26 chronological segments, performed in a different randomly determined order each night. (His scenes–like the holes in an ingeniously designed golf course described in the show–are all […]
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News of the Weird
Lead Story For an interview in the January issue of GQ former president Jimmy Carter recounted a story reporters have been asking him about for at least 30 years: the one about the time he saw a UFO shortly before a Lions Club dinner in southwest Georgia in 1969. He said he and other attendees […]
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Hurlyburly
Of all the searing portraits of Hollywood, David Rabe’s Hurlyburly must be the nastiest, most brutish, and longest. Even in Michael Patrick Thornton’s well-paced production, it’s more than three hours with two intermissions. Set in 1980 and ’81 and first performed at the Goodman in a pre-Broadway engagement in 1984, Hurlyburly concerns a pair of […]
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Greenspeak
I can’t tell you how heartened I was to read in this article [“They Need It. We Waste It,” January 13] about people in addition to myself who seriously want the Chicago River to be restored to its natural direction and South Branch headwaters! I’ve always thought this “engineering feat” of reversal was an abomination, […]
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Nunsensations: The Nunsense Vegas Revue
This sweet vaudevillian sequel to writer-director Dan Goggin’s popular Nunsense features feathered fans, a chorus line, musical references to the Village People, and plenty of vaguely naughty rim-shot jokes. Five nuns (three of the actresses sleepwalk through their roles, while Deborah Del Mastro and Jeanne Tinker explode out of theirs) are putting on a Vegas […]
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Aspirations of Empire
Dear editor: So Michael Miner [Hot Type, January 6] thinks that the issue of the moment isn’t how we got into the Iraq war but rather “how it’s been run.” Perhaps he also believes that the real question for the Nixon administration wasn’t who conceived of and approved the Watergate break-in, but instead why the […]
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Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and Other Just So Stories
Near the end of this program of three Rudyard Kipling fables the Great Djinn asked the audience, “Are you ready to leave India to seek other adventures?” and one youngster shouted, “No!” You couldn’t blame him. What, leave after only 45 minutes of Bollywood-style musical numbers, tales of crocodiles and camels and other exotic animals, […]
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Savage Love
I have a sexual interest in the sounds of men using the toilet. There are several restaurants close to my home, and I hide a wireless telephone headset in an inconspicuous place in the bathroom. I can then record, from my home, the sounds of men farting and defecating. My husband is aware of this […]
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Hopeful if Hellish
Curious Theatre Branch rounds up the troops for a festival of Beckett shorts.