Word: erine
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Voices, written by Susan Griffin and directed by Jeanne Smoot, presents the lives of five contemporary women, each attempting to understand the course of her life. Maya (Leslie Yahia), Kate (Jeanne Smoot), Erin (Angela Delichatsios), Rosalinde (Emily Gardiner) and Grace (Erin Scott) have had very different lives: they are, respectively, a divorced mother writing her Ph.D. thesis, a retired actress, a patient in a mental hospital, a mother mourning the loss of her children to their adult lives and a new-age hippie...
...most part the actresses deliver their characters passionately and believably. Occasionally, it seemed that one was watching the actress and not her character--in other words, that each woman was playing a thinly disguised version of herself. Jeanne Smoot and Erin Scott sometimes seemed stilted as they attempted to appear matronly. Leslie Yahia was too hyperactive to be convincing as an angry and burnt out single mother. All of the women were far more real when they were delivering comic lines than when trying to confront serious issues in their characters' lives...
...Erin Heffernan, Pennsylvania (Fr., GK) Mansfield, Mass.--Subbing for starter Debbie Goldklang (ill), Heffernan turned away 14 Bucknell shots...
...Erin comes across as too earnest, too demure and too tragically trapped to belong in a caper novel. But still you want to laugh and cheer when the plucky stripper finally gets the upper hand against Dilbeck: "Davey, I'm trying to cut you a break. Now if you'd prefer Plan B, that's fine. Have you ever been on Hard Copy?" If Hiaasen dialogue like that isn't worth the price of admission, then spend your late nights curled up with Proust...
...bare-bones plot of Strip Tease revolves around FBI secretary turned exotic dancer Erin Grant, who is working at the Eager Beaver to pay her legal fees to win back custody of her daughter. Erin's ex-husband Darrell is a lowlife so inept that he boosts wheelchairs, not cars, for a living. Congressman Dilbeck (the poor man's Wilbur Mills) becomes as obsessed with Erin as the sugar lobby is with keeping this drunken buffoon of a subcommittee chairman in office. Throw in a few dead bodies, and Hiaasen's morality play is off and running like a frisky...