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...brother read off the sign we’d approached, articulating every syllable like our own little Roberto Benigni in the back seat. My dad??s brow had grown increasingly furrowed as his high hopes for finding Iacurso gradually plummeted—our quest seemed dead, having found its final resting place at this seemingly private cemetery just off the arid dirt road...
None of us had the heart to tell my dad??–who is neither sentimental nor particularly adventurous––that we severely doubted we’d find the town of Iacurso. It wasn?...
...problem is that no one questions why we tend to prefer white actors. For example, it is generally presumed that the major roles of Jonathan and Rosalie in “Oh Dad, Poor Dad?? will be cast as white. Many people may believe that the only plays worth producing are written for white actors, but this line of thought leaves little room for actors of other ethnicities to find roles that are not a stereotype of their ethnic appearance and/or not minor roles. Furthermore, this line of thought does not justify why white actors were cast...
...Tell me about your character.DS: Well, Brick is a drunken ex-football player/announcer. He’s sexually confused. His wife thinks that he was in love with his friend. It seems like he loved neither of them and he’s just unhappy, but he is his dad??s favorite.RR: Do you perform drunk?DS: A little bit. Towards the end.RR: Has this role made you sexually confused?DS: No, that was the hardest thing to do actually.RR: Harder than the southern accent?DS: Yeah, and I’m from Long Island.RR: So I looked...
...play whose main character is devoted to squeezing joy and life out of everything around her, and which could have been similarly strained by the pressure of opening a new institution, “Oh Dad?? is remarkably sprightly—and a wicked delight...