Word: haring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Alan Ayckbourn's most provocative comedies (A Chorus of Disapproval, Man of the Moment), Gambon is known here mainly as the star of Dennis Potter's admired TV mini-series, The Singing Detective. Now he's making his long-overdue U.S. stage debut, in a Broadway production of David Hare's Skylight. All the ingredients are there for stage magic; unfortunately, too many of the wires and trapdoors are clearly visible...
...Hare's plays usually teem with ideas and political passion. He took on the British justice system in Murmuring Judges, postwar disillusion in Plenty, the church in Racing Demon. Skylight is a more modest piece, essentially a two-character drama about a wealthy restaurateur who arrives at the bleak little flat of his former mistress and tries to rekindle their affair. First we learn, rather tediously, the background of their relationship: they met when she went to work at one of his restaurants; she left him three years ago; his wife has since died of cancer. Then, after some getting...
Director Richard Eyre adds a couple of jarring physical outbursts (she angrily flings a load of silverware; a bit later he scatters a pile of books), but Hare hasn't pulled his weight. Glad to have you, Mr. Gambon; bring an Ayckbourn play the next time you're in town...
Votes will be tabulated according to the Hare Proportional system to determine the winners. Each house and Yard district has four to six representatives, depending on its population
Based on an anonymous questionnaire mailed to all members of the class of '71, a 10-member alumni committee chaired by class secretary Chip O'Hare '71 compiled a 45-page demographics report containing both data percentages and respondents' additional comments...