Word: asylums
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...quiet suburb of Dublin, this psychodrama unfolds over the card table of Billy Beavis (Jonathan Hammel), who has been home for less than a day from a twelve-month stint at an insane asylum. To celebrate his return he has brought together what remains of his family and friends to participate in an old ritual of friendship--"a poker session." Over the course of the play this friendly game gradually reveals itself to be a carefully orchestrated trial of vengeance. Along with his friend Teddy (C. Michael Rodriguez), a fellow outpatient from the asylum, Billy presides over a tense...
...domestic complacency which characterizes Billy's suburban existence. They do so slowly, artfully--skeletons emerge from the closet of each character in the first act, preparing the audience for Teddy's explosive discoveries in the second act. Rodriguez turns a brilliant performance as Billy's friend from the asylum, whose mercurial energy and neurotic intensity combine with keen wit and perception. As Billy's lawyer in this card-game-turned-trial, Teddy embodies the insanity of the everyday as much as he exposes...
...power with the long-dominant Christians. Aoun, who escaped during the fighting to the French embassy, where he remained holed up last week, had revolted against the accord because it provided no timetable for the withdrawal of Syrian forces in Lebanon, who number 40,000. France has granted Aoun asylum, but Lebanese President Elias Hrawi's government insists that he remain in the country to face trial for, among other things, allegedly pilfering $75 million from the treasury...
HEALTH: Moving from asylum to anarchy...
...start of its five-week U.S. engagement, the Classical Dance Company of Cambodia has been tangled in the ugly factionalism that still divides the artists' homeland. Last week, after dancing for a packed house in Lowell, Mass., a 24- year-old female member of the company decided to seek asylum in the U.S. Four days earlier, three other dancers sought political refuge during a concert stop in Minnesota...