Word: burgesses
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...lawn, b) cook, or c) vote for the Republican candidate for president. Not too tough to choose mowing the lawn, right? Now imagine she says instead, "Youre going to live with apartheid, and you're going to like it." This is the situation seventeen year old Gil Burgess faces in Jon Robin Baitz's A Fair Country. His father Harry Burgess is an American diplomat stuck permanently in a backwater of 1977 South Africa, and wife and son begin to get a little too comfortable with beating up and calling the police on their black servants...
...perform a shady act of obedience to a country that sympathizes with the regime. The family is never given a chance to reach a compromise, say by firing their servants or transplanting themselves to an embassy. After Alec arrives, it's downhill into death and destruction for the Burgess family. But, after careful analysis, it's a tragedy that by rights shouldn't happen...
...person that saves the king-a man named Willis, former priest and amateur physician-does so by shocking him into sanity, by breaking him up so he can be built up again. Willis character demands a mixture of sternness and doting which unfortunately evades title actor Alexis Burgess. The error is on the side of severity, as Burgess's Willis breaks George through boot camp discipline combined with asylum methods. His role in the production is not that of foil for the king's will, but, at best, of disciplinarian. Burgess's Willis is a tool to hammer reason back...
...held in a fictional city being torn apart (down?) by arson. The arsonists come to your doorstep as homeless men looking for shelter, and they don't leave. See it for the Greek chorus of firemen choreographed by James Carmichael. Or for the all-star cast which includes Alexis Burgess and Emily Knapp. Or for McClelland's original production which includes video and slide projections to set the scene and perhaps a real fire to torch the scene...
...including 30 in the U.S. Ten years ago, the number of U.S. attacks was just 19. Despite the increase, shark experts say sharks should be more worried about people. Overfishing is depleting the shark population approximately 40 million a year. "The real story is not shark bites man," says Burgess. "It's man bites shark...