Word: mag
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They are as scrubbed up as the Bay City Rollers and as menacing as lap cats. So what could be their main "dislikes," as listed, fan-mag style, on their 1986 debut album? Jonathan Knight, 20, and Danny Wood, 20, say "prejudice"; Donnie Wahlberg, 20, mentions "war," and Joseph McIntyre, 17, nominates "poverty." Jordan Knight, 19, Jonathan's younger brother, plumps for "all basketball teams except the Celtics." There, then. You wouldn't mind if your daughter married a New Kid, unless, of course, you're a Lakers...
...NORTHERN IRELAND on a beautiful summer's day, Brian Friel's Lovers gives a warm (and loving) glance at two 17-year-old fiances. Sitting on a hill overlooking their town, Mag (Sarah Jane Cohen) and Joe (Aaron Carlos) try to study for final exams but mainly dream of their future together. Before long, Friel introduces a tragic twist: the couple will die in a boating accident before the afternoon is over...
...Commentators begin the action with brief but telling portraits of Joe and Mag. Among other bits of information, they inform us that he was "an excellent student, not brilliant, but very keen and industrious," that she was "intelligent but scattered," and that Mag's pregnancy necessitated their marriage...
From the moment of their entrances, Cohen and Carlos fill out these character outlines admirably. Cohen's Mag is a bright-eyed, quick-witted girl who loves to speculate upon anything but the final exam subjects at hand. With great charm, she prattles on about everything from their new apartment to the laughable nuns at school to maternal intuition; finally, she resorts to faking labor pains to take Joe's attention from his "grubby old books...
...GREAT wisdom, Friel eventually turns the tables upon Joe. Having offended Mag into stony silence, Joe tries desperately to win back her favor. These moments provide Carlos with fine comic material as he jumps from one impersonation to another, from one deliciously wicked private joke to the next. Both actors sustain their own extended monologues beautifully, but, just as important, they also convey a great depth of attachment and intimacy whenever Mag and Joe are reconciled...