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Q: What do you think about the word "exotic?" Does that bother you at all?
The show is first set in London, but the search for a purloined jewel drives the characters to Egypt. These exotic locales allow Liang, who is currently the musical director of the Harvard Krokodiloes, to explore a wide breadth of music.
Quincy is an Orientalist's wet dream, a melange of all things exotically Asian done up with clean lines and simple geometric shapes (triangular ceiling sconces, cube chairs). The screens that separate the serving area from the dining area are like Japanese privacy screens, their slatted design evoking "exotic" bamboo...
EM: Yes, yes, Reagan was the all-American. Well actually there's not as much of me in it as you'd think. The narrator is rather unlike me, he's mathematical and Germanic, I am neither of those things. Also well-born and elitist, which I am not. The...
There is also, however, a certain distance the members put between one another that is palpable. The Kroks spend their entire summer together every year, crisscrossing the globe and by the end of tour, tensions run high. "I was ready to kill everyone in the group," one member explains. The...