Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BRAZIL (TV GLOBO...
...second half of the play, both the Great Man and the Lesser known man are in the ground. Both have died, but it is the Lesser Known man whose death is foregrounded now. The Foundling Father's wife Lucy, and his son, Brazil, spend their time digging in the hole that the deceased husband had begun, intending to replicate the amusement park, The Great Hole of History. Brazil wants to know all about his father, and Lucy tells him about his father's great fascination with Lincoln especially his assassination. Lucy recounts sadly how the "Lesser Man forgets...
...York Shakespeare Festival earlier this year. Terry Alexander gives a magnetic performance both as the Foundling Father and as the Foundling Father impersonating Abraham Lincoln. Kim Brockington gives us an emotionally complex Lucy, who speaks simultaneously with sarcasm, love and a quiet, reverent wonder. Royal Miller plays the son Brazil with both energy and style; he explores the broad reaches of expressive range of body, face, and voice...
...heart says Brazil, but my head saysGermany," Malin says
...those who prefer to think in post-modern terms, Brazil offers the high and the low, especially when it merges the ideals of romantic love with a perpetual state of rut. The results include "the muck of the psyche," where "sex is nature's dirty work" and "perversity, like chastity, overcomes the bestial drive." The couple's caves of love take many forms: the leafy median of a busy highway, glittering condominium apartments, primitive gold- mining camps and the floor of the Amazon. The sacred and the profane are part of the same ooze. Lyricism mingles with basic Anglo-Saxon...