Word: gabrielic
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...Joyce could have written with any spark: a taciturn opera singer, an oddly cantankerous young girl, a merry drunkard and his mother (who manages to make Herod’s wife look like Mrs. Brady). All of these characters are auxiliary to Joyce’s self-referential creation, Gabriel (played with remarkable agility and discretion by Sean Cullen...
...that Aunt Julia is nearing death. The skillful adaptation of Joyce’s text by writer-director Richard Nelson indicates that reality, but does not go for mere empathy, instead communicating a hope that transcends death. At the same time that Julia’s health is failing, Gabriel is doubting the love borne for him by his wife, played by a lovely but somewhat grating Kate Kearney-Patch, who possesses a radiant voice but whose speaking voice requires more reining-in than was given by the director...
Gradually, the slight plot resolves with fine acting; the tension between drunken son and remote mother dissipates; feelings of ill will fade between Gabriel and the attractive Molly Ivors (the aforementioned cantankerous youth, played with a surprisingly beautiful conscientiousness by Brandy Zarle); and Bartell D’Arcy, supposedly the best baritone of his time (a role more than sufficiently fulfilled by Gannon McHale), settles his affairs with his almost reluctant hostess, Aunt Julia herself...
...living join with the dead, snow falls in the background and a feeling of serenity, a serenity, one might think, as comforting as that which accompanies the dead, passes over the audience. As the always-apropos Gabriel himself poses, “Where are the words that might express one’s heart?” The pseudo-answer to this rhetorical question lies in the play’s unconscious description of the audience: “They listened, they watched, and they smiled...
...music and global music aren't mutually exclusive categories. In the '80s Paul Simon, David Byrne and Peter Gabriel blended world beats. More recently, Sting scored a hit with Algerian rai star Cheb Mami, Lauryn Hill covered Bob Marley on MTV Unplugged, and Britney Spears has made a habit of working with Swedish songwriter Max Martin. Madonna, on her latest tour, drew from so many cultures for sonic and sartorial inspiration, it was a surprise Kofi Annan didn't join her for an encore...