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...Bacchae is nearly 2400 years old, but it contains all of the grimness and gore of a modern-day shoot-em-up. The trouble for player and audience alike is that all of the action-violent, sexual and otherwise-occurs off-stage, and director Oleson has few ideas on how to make the play's lengthy, demanding speeches very affecting. Too often, the actors race through their tirades in effort to convey passion and fury; they end up losing their audience instead...
...Then of course we've had a flap or two. The gouging, for one. Say your wife is cooking. It means you get to eat free. But we had 'em bringing the whole family in here for breakfast and dinner. Oh, we had a big flap over that...
...anatomy of Andrew Jackson's rampant bronze horse an insult or two, then pull up in the club dining room and on evil days have a martini, maybe two. About then our natural leader, Peter Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News, would shout, "Okay, boys, let's cut 'em up." There followed golden hours of bombast, insult, vituperation and disparagement aimed at Presidents, editors, academics, clergymen, members of Congress and little old ladies in tennis shoes. Osborne, the courtly Southerner, was heard on somber occasions to say "darn." Thus cleansed, we returned to duty -- and, as we now know, banishment...
...Mayor. Maybe someday somebody was take care of the Mayor's worries, but it sure as hell is not going to be him. Where is he when ya need 'em...
Pauly did. "Must have been against Montreal," he recalled. Those Kunuks would come down from Worcester for the game. They'd get a couple of beers in 'em, start gettin' cocky, and all hell would break loose...