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Their technique has succeeded with the audience. "It's one of the most apt parodies of sitcoms. People talk about how stupid sitcoms are, but this actually does something about it," says Byard...
...Connor's selection of text seems to be centered most strongly on religion, certainly an apt focal point for any modern Irish production. The audience witnesses the young Joyce wrestling with the yoke of religion, especially as emblematized by his mother--he is willfully, brashly iconoclastic. The more mature Joyce creates Leopold Bloom, who has settled on universal love as the only acceptable doctrine...
...portion of that message may be offensive to him. After all, do Americans fail to honor Thomas Jefferson and George Washington because they were slave owners? And are Americans "out-raged" or "embarrassed and shocked" by the statements of such celebrated individuals as David Hume, who wrote, "I'm apt to suspect the negroes...to be naturally inferior to whites," or Immanuel Kant, who wrote, "The Negroes of Africa have by nature no feeling that rises above the trifling...
...sardonic definition of a sailboat is a hole in the water into which you pour money. And effort. And time. The surprise is only that the description has remained apt for so long. While there have been countless improvements in boating equipment, the sailboat, especially the basic 30- to 40-ft. cruising craft, has not changed much in the past 20 years. Nor has it had the full- scale design overhaul that might be expected for a relatively expensive sport, where as many as eight people work simultaneously at complicated tasks...
While maintaining Aristophanes' Greek setting, Cabranes replays music from the prologue throughout the show, introduces a male and female chorus (Bart St. Clair and Faith Salie) to represent each gender as a whole, and peppers the dialogue with apt Shakespearian references and 20th century colloquialisms...