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...three - the pedophile, the mother of a 10-year-old girl he has murdered, and a scientist who uses him as a subject for her research into the criminal mind - speak directly, and separately, to the audience, in that dreary minimalist mode of so many new plays. But Irish playwright Bryony Lavery breaks the formula by bringing the characters together for a few key confrontations, and the superb actors (Brian F. O?Byrne, Swoosie Kurtz and Laila Robbins) help keep our eyes transfixed on events almost too terrible to contemplate. The fact that this bleak and unsettling play transferred from...
...more jarring when Almeida gets mistaken for a terrorist--which happens about once a month, sometimes more. Since 9/11, he says, he has been followed by an Amtrak helicopter, questioned by police and rail workers and described to 911 dispatch as a "suspicious Middle Eastern male." Almeida is of Irish Catholic descent...
Strict but colorful nuns and life-changing Jesuit priests also populate the former altar boy's fond rendering of the tight-knit Irish Catholic world of his childhood, where John F. Kennedy was king. It was good preparation for an early job working for New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan--Russert's intellectual father--who assured him that having hauled garbage during the summer, Russert would always have the advantage in a roomful of eggheads...
...industry based on looks, Byrne's open face (of Irish-Scottish ancestry, she can appear almost Asian) should take her places. But it's her sense of humor as much as anything else that will see her through. As the brainy foil to Ben Lee's hippie wildchild in last year's The Rage in Placid Lake, she wisecracked like Doris Day on Benzedrine. Her ego won't get in the way, either. Director Clara Law, who cast Byrne in The Goddess of 1967 (2000), calls her "shy and very humble. She's got this thing about herself, that...
...Green Wave (19-4, 6-0 Conference USA) took the doubles point as well as the first two singles matches, but the Fighting Irish (15-9, 3-2 Big East) refused to go quietly. The team pushed two singles matches to a third set and led both, while another was on pace for a third set as well...