Word: britishism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lover, the first play of the evening and perhaps the most famous one-act piece by British playwright Harold Pinter, love is little more than an elaborate role-playing game. As a happily average British middle class couple, Barlow Adamson and Marie Larkin move carefully around their disgustingly perfect home (constructed with aggravating blandness--lemon yellow sofa draping and all--by stage designer Jeff Gardiner) pouring drinks for one another and speaking in formal semi-monotones. They love each other, or so they claim, but their marriage is sexless. It is only when they meet in secret during...
...band, and over 50 it should be illegal," quips Robyn Hitchcock on Saturday, just before his show at the Paradise. At 46, Hitchcock is fast moving toward his own age cap, but with a career of over 20 years already on the books, the veteran British folk-rocker doesn't seem fazed. He recently released a new album, Jewels for Sophia, and is now touring with a full band for the first time since the early...
...English 10a, "Major British Writers...
...Swinging '60s man-about-town Kim Caborn-Waterfield, an actor who squired the now deceased blond bombshell Diana Dors. Caborn-Waterfield envisioned a chain of sex supermarkets patterned after Beate Uhse's. The shops were bought a year later by Gold Group International, whose holdings include a number of British soft-porn magazines and which is owned by managing director Gold's father and uncle. It was the woman of the family who came up with the innovative sales strategy. After joining the family business in 1979, Gold, 39, attended a home-sales party for a line of clothing...
Years before the Monty Python boys began flouncing about in frocks, Australia's Barry Humphries donned a dress as Edna Everage, Melbourne housewife. His "one-woman" London shows turned Edna into a British institution. In her hilarious Broadway debut, the self-dubbed dame sings a bit and muses about her family (Mum's in a "maximum-security twilight home"), but mostly she chats with the audience--or picks on it (though "caringly"). Humphries, a gloriously gaudy "megastar," has timing as sharp as a knife pleat...