Word: aquila
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...play titled Hot 'n' Throbbing, or at least one hopes for it. Hopes increase when the play opens showing a woman in a strip booth at one side of the stage and her announcer in a booth opposite. These lewd stakes are raised still higher with Diane D'Aquila's opening monologue at her computer as she writes pornography to support her two children. The play begins, at such a pitch that one wonders how playwright Paula Vogel will pull...
...meet the kids, we are given a standard glimpse at the dysfunctional family. D'Aquila plays the mother of the sexually blossoming Leslie Ann (Amy Louise Lammert) and the nerdy, pre-pubescent, Calvin (Randall Jaynes). Leslie Anne insists on being called Leila and wearing tight, tight jeans in which Calvin tauntingly claims he can see her panty lines. Poor Calvin doesn't have a life-it's a Friday night and he would rather stay home with Mom writing porn. While the situation would make a good Oprah topic, D'Aquila's human portrayal along with the well-paced flashes...
...bells of L'Aquila tolled dolorously last week in mourning for a missing Pope. The remains of 13th century Pope St. Celestine V -- a nearly intact skeleton with a wax face -- had been stolen from the city's basilica of Santa Maria di Collemaggio. Celestine occupied St. Peter's chair for five months in 1294, and then abdicated -- an act Dante alluded to as the "great refusal." He was canonized...
...followed the pair to the remains, stashed some 40 miles away. The figure of Celestine, still wearing miter and robes, was found lying on its red velvet cushion but concealed in a plywood box crammed into a burial niche in a local cemetery. The miscreants escaped. Back in L'Aquila, the bells rang again, this time in celebration...
Although the inevitability of Beatrice-Joanna's psychological paralysis is meant to move us, it doesn't because the gruff and ready D'Aquila hasn't accumulated any sweet-maidenhood points. We don't care that she makes love to a man she hates in order to obviate marrying another man she scorns (and all for the sake of a third man whom she loves but deceives). We like her so little we find it hard to view her tragic demise as anything but deserving comeuppance...