Word: confronting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...distinguish fantasy from reality. The characters in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, however, face an unmistakingly real existence controlled by alcoholism, latent homosexuality, and insatiable desire and greed. A successful production of any Williams play requires an intimate understanding of the underlying themes and a willingness to confront them straight on without embellishing the lines with sappy overacting. In a Williams play, the starkness of the words themselves creates the overlying tensions and consequently should be allowed to speak for themselves...
...Roof will never be an enjoyable play to watch because it assaults too many brutal problems haunting people. But if the audience realizes this and allows itself to be swept into the setting, the characters, and their relationships, then the play will have a devastating effect, forcing us to confront our own problems, and our difficulties in expressing our thoughts. This particular production, superbly interpreted by the cast, plays off of the audience's attention, and as we get consumed in their actions, they in turn become more and more tense and brutal, relaxing their grip only when the lights...
...gunman, who had demanded whisky during the afternoon, appeared drunk when he was taken into custody, and was given a Breathalyzer test. The FBI joined in the interrogation, seeking a motive for his all too desperate attempt to confront the President...
...however, review some of the issues that might confront the next dean--naming, as examples, graduate education and junior faculty development...
...performing an enormous public service. It's giving the American people the ability to become part of the debate over the most important issue of our times." For Roger Molander, founder of the nuclear-war-education group Ground Zero, The Day After is a conduit to confrontation. "To come to grips with the reality of nuclear war, one has to go through a nuclear passage, to confront a nuclear war in all its horror. This will provide a passage for 30, 40, 50 million Americans...