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Yours truly here at 14P had a triple-hitter weekend: while a former (illustrious) chair was carried home, intoxicated and incapacitated, after a changing of the guard, newer contributors were busy greeting the old in the most scandalous of drunken attempts at lip-locking. Meanwhile, a certain business-oriented chap was frantically conveying his concerns over orientation to a future Cantabridgian, pita-wrapped Greek delicacy in hand all the while. For one special birthday bird, it was the thunder that was chocolate-flavored this year, not the cake, which was instead perfumed with the scent of intoxicating herbs...
...three actors who round out the cast, forming the versatile Greek chorus that morphs into various ensemble roles, Danya Cousins stands out, especially as Li’l Bit’s mother and Aunt Mary. Her increasingly drunken instructions for ladylike alcohol consumption are charming and comical, yet Cousins also delivers one of the most moving monologues of the play as Peck’s distressed wife Mary, counting the days until Li’l Bit leaves home...
Instances like Cousins’ drunken motherly advice highlight the many missed opportunities for dark humor throughout the show. The production’s sometimes-sluggish pace would have benefited from taking advantage of these wittier moments, rather than downplaying them to focus instead on Li’l Bit’s turbulent maturation. Still, director Tara L. Matkosky goes full throttle by the play’s final scenes, ending the show on a powerful, riveting note...
...which these poets are situated, a tradition of involved artists who could take as their motto these words of compatriot Allen Ginsberg: “I’ll do the work—and what’s the Work? To ease the pain of living/ Everything else, drunken dumbshow...
...They are an extremely likable band. Live shows are swaying, drunken, multiracial carousals of mutual infatuation between audience and musicians. Lead singer Jan Curious has a litheness and thinness of girth that would make a Rolling Stone proud. The English-language songs are delirious paeans to fast cars ("Tell Her"), fast girls ("Caroline") and fast times ("Something Special"). And how is it possible to not be won over by a group that declares its chief influence to be "every song we've ever heard"? (See Asia's best bands...