Word: imperfectible
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Last week the Randall troupe opened a second season with, as promised, a heartening leap forward. Its staging of The Seagull is imperfect and at times campy, taking too literally Chekhov's admonition that his plays are comedies. But it tells the story beautifully and has several interesting ideas about the text...
Real democracy, however primitive and messy, has come to Russia. That achievement, imperfect and fragile though it is, is nothing less than a miracle. But it is a miracle wrapped in danger inside a dilemma...
...country is highly sensitized to trouble. Rumors of a coup, a dictatorship, social upheaval have raced through the capital. But something else has happened as well. Most of Russia's 150 million citizens are taking the latest crisis in stride, indifferent to all the fuss in Moscow. However imperfect their experiment in democracy has proved so far, they have gained confidence that one day it will succeed...
...what does this say about non-ordered choice? Well, we can see that it's an imperfect institution that erodes reputations enough to threaten the unity of houses once bound by common jockiness, artsiness, crunchiness or wealth. We also know that non-ordered choice doesn't do quite enough to satisfy those who neither enjoy nor fit the stereotypes. In my house, the Heirs and the Randoms exist uneasily together...
...with Janovitz wrenching out his tormented vocals as the rhythm section gnashed beneath him. He doesn't always hit the note right, and often there's more noise coming out of him that song. But this isn't k.d. lang--he's supposed to be in agony, and his imperfect, sincere singing makes the band seem like they rehearse in your neighbor's basement...