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Williams's powerful script requires strong performances from the main characters. And Peterson and Javerbaum rise to the occasion. Peterson gives an urgent performance that moves the audience to feel her need for love and attention from Brick. In scenes with her sister-in-law Mae (Heather Hughes), Peterson displays just the right amount of spite and hatred, while still retaining her Southern manners...
...from the age when people wrote songs for stars to belt. It's tempting to call Bette Midler a force of nature -- except there is nothing natural about what she does. She's a living, breathing high concept, a bundle of nerve and other people's conventions (a little Mae West, a touch of Judy Garland, maybe all three Andrews Sisters rolled into one). But if as a performer Midler conjures up an older, bolder show-biz era, she doesn't nostalgize it. She gives it a rude, shrewd yet affectionate twist, satirizing and energizing it for contemporary audiences...
...having everyone "know his place." These facts are so overarching that we tend to take them for granted, but they are inherently more dramatic than the domestic squabbles and psychological revelations at the heart of most U.S. theater. It is the daring, and impressively achieved, ambition of Endesha Ida Mae Holland to make this arc of change the subject of a single play and to illuminate it all in the more-or-less true story of one black woman: herself...
Imagine ancient Athens with a dash of Mae West, ancient Sparta with a touch of Katherine Hepburn, the Pelopanesian War to the tune of "Singin' in the Rain." Director Amy Cabranes expertly blends these themes in a well-choreographed adaptation of Aristophanes' Lysistrata...
...response, Fannie Mae last week launched a program to audit bond sales and expel cheaters from the group of 56 firms that sell the securities to the public. "We realized there was no integrity in the system," an agency spokesman said...