Word: makings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...minister is used to the limelight, and being recently named one of Talk magazine's "top talkers" was amusing--but the article didn't make it onto his antique-adorned mantle...
Forget General Exams for English concentrators. If you can make it through a production of Christopher Durang and Albert Innaurato's The Idiots Karamazov at the American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) without feeling lost at least once, then you're well on your way to an encyclopedic knowledge of all Western literature. Talk about high cultural capital. It's not just any play that requires the equivalent of a doctorate in world literature for even cursory reference. But then again, Christopher Durang isn't just any writer. And perhaps only Durang could make a play so unabashedly laden with obscure references...
...young Wally and Candy (Paul Rudd and Charlize Theron), who came to the orphanage to terminate Candy's pregnancy. Homer, around their age, returns to Wally's farm with him and joins the apple-picking migrants in their seasonal labor. From there, Homer begins an even greater journey to make his own way in the world, a society with which he is almost completely unfamiliar because of his sheltered existence with Larch and the orphans...
...There would be some resistance, but if you had a lot of fun classes, like archery, people would enjoy it," she says. " If they're going to make us do [Quantitative Reasoning], I don't think gym's a big deal...
...Other carefully thought out details of this production include the sound-effects and the slide projections. The vivid slides more than make up for the paucity of the physical set. These images remind the audience that this is not just a play about two individuals out of time and place, but that they refer to historical events that actually occurred. The penultimate scene of the Tiananmen Square Massacre becomes real for the audience as they see Karen and her friends suffering from physical and mental pain in front of the backdrop of projected photos of the real actors and victims...