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Playwright David Hare does. And in Racing Demon, which is visiting Los Angeles in a Royal National Theatreproduction, unfashionable form and seemingly distant subject matter are suddenly made vividly relevant. At the center of Richard Eyre's dark, stark yet ever bustling production stands (or rather slumps) the weary figure of the Rev. Lionel Espy (Oliver Ford Davies), a man who has lost not only religious faith but also the consolations of secular humanism with which he has been making do. To the political right and above him is his bishop (Richard Pasco), also faithless but fiercely insistent that...
Hare has granted all his characters humanizing histories and eccentricities; his actors, particularly Davies and Kotz, respond with richly wayward performances, and his play transcends its -- as it were -- parochial subject matter. Without resorting to gaseous big-think, Racing Demon is a sharp-edged, metaphorical study of the way confused institutions and their loyalists befuddle and betray one another in the age of ambiguity...
...have Alcatraz on the Charles. The gates to the Houses will be locked shut, and only those with IDs and their registered guests will be allowed inside. Parties are banned, kegs are banned, and roving teams of enforcers will wander the Square in case a drop of the demon Rolling Rock should escape...
Parizeau, although he might not be the ideal leader for Quebec, is not the demon Chung describes. Parizeau has always openly stood by his belief in separation, both in 1980 when he was not in a position to take power if separation would have occurred, and in 1984 when he left the PQ because other Quebec nationalists did not stick to their original ideal of an independent Quebec...
...have little new to say about those demons, but it has plenty to show, in images that mix beauty and horror, atrocity and comedy. Angels and red horses glide across the night sky. Mallory's family life is played as a grotesque sitcom that ends when her awful father (Rodney Dangerfield) is beaten to death and her weak mother is set ablaze. When Mickey and Mallory visit an Indian shaman (Russell Means), the words demon and too much tv are superimposed on their torsos. Flashes of Hitler and Stalin, insects and rhinos, The Wild Bunch and Midnight Express (the film...