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...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 off-Broadway to the land of Mamma Mia and The Lion King (where, even if it wins a Tony or two, it has slim chance...
...River with Kurtz...
...can’t go up the river with Kurtz,” he says he was told, alluding to the grim postcolonial boat-ride of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and the Vietnam nightmare of Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse...
...luck than killer instinct. In the sequel, he reappears as the almost impossibly intense and charismatic?though still somber?terrorist mastermind. Holed up in his ramshackle fort, torn between enlightened world-weariness and revolutionary zeal, he's a teenage mix of Osama bin Laden and Joseph Conrad's Kurtz. "They may call us evil," announces the philosopher-terrorist in a bin Laden-style address, "but we'll never abandon our struggle for justice...
Around this time, Pappas was approached by Tim Kurtz, a former Gold’s Gym regional director who owned a health supplements store in Watertown. Kurtz wanted to start serving food alongside his vitamins and, in 1999, the two partnered to put the plan into action. Watertown was the site of the first Lo Fat Know Fat and, following its success, a second restaurant in Shrewsbury, Mass., was opened. A third restaurant is due in Stoughton, Mass., this summer. Pappas hopes to have 10 new restaurants within the next few years and wants to rival the big fast food...