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Mostly, the boxing approximates the pseudo fighting of the WWF. Evil pugilists void of ethics kick their opponents in the head after a knockout or use tactics that even a hard-core boxing libertarian would deem unfair...
There is some emotion here despite the characters' failure to evoke empathy, but it is mostly a byproduct of gore and disfigured faces. For instance, when one boxer emerges comatose from a knockout, the audience cannot help but bemoan the unfairness of the underground, inner-city boxing circuits. One hopes that such barbarity is purely fictitious...
MARVIN'S ROOM. The first generation of AIDS plays dealt with the disease head on and focused on a specifically gay male world. The new wave, like Prelude to a Kiss and this off-Broadway knockout by Scott McPherson, respond metaphorically, never mentioning gays or even the disease but instead looking at the universal experiences of illness and dying, family rage and reconciliation. Director David Petrarca has polished the work through stagings in Chicago and Hartford, and it shines -- especially in Laura Esterman's portrayal of a care-giving aunt and Mark Rosenthal's depiction of her turbulent teenage nephew...
Instead, Harvard was dealt its own knockout punch...
KILLER JOE: SCENE OF THE CRIME (Hard Ticket). The knockdown, knockout party record of the season, if your idea of a blowout is straight-from-the-hear t rock with the rollicking flavor of the Jersey shore. Killer Joe Delia is a piano pounder with a raucous voice, and he's buttressed here by the eloquent drumming of his crony Max Weinberg, late of the E Street Band, and guest performers like Little Steven and Jon Bon Jovi. Glory days indeed...