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...into the dirt along the top of the trench. Down below the ridge, plum orchards in spring bloom conceal the Muslim lines. Exploding artillery shells trigger small avalanches along the rain-loosened earth walls. A young Serb slides into the trench, out of breath from his dash across a meadow of buttercups pocked by mortar craters. He has a question to ask that is important enough to risk his life. "Why does the world want to destroy us?" he wants to know. "We are victims...
...protagonist's visions offer glimpses of beautiful but ultimately unreal scenes. In "Emergency," angels appear to the hero in a meadow, "their huge faces streaked with pity." What he really sees is a drive-in movie screen. In "Work" two men strip an abandoned house for scrap wire; afterwards they go to the local bar, where the barmaid "poured doubles like an angel, right up to the lip of a cocktail glass, no measuring." This "angel" bartends in a grungy bar, but to the sobbing protagonist she is nurse and mother...
...group is trudging along a pathway through the forest, looking something like an extended family on vacation: small children, teenagers, middle-agers and older people. But when the walkers suddenly emerge in a wide meadow, it is clear that something strange is happening. On one side of the clearing stands the gray-clad army of Robert E. Lee, and on the other the dark blue-uniformed infantry serving under George Meade. As the hikers stand and watch, bugles sound, guns begin to fire and the battle of Gettysburg is under...
...women who have never been to a men's-movement convention in a large, open meadow can visit Iron Johns in action. "I have to be Mr. Right for me before I can be Mr. Right for someone else," says...
...Rivetti brothers, as played by Jake Weber, in no way call to mind the U.S. style of mafiosi. And in the pivotal role of Jack, Brian Murray is a tower of Jell-O, reeking of insincerity from his entry, peevish rather than apocalyptic in uprooting family scandal. Director Lynne Meadow, who vastly improved on Ayckbourn's staging of his best play, Woman in Mind, here reduces a cry of outrage to an amiable snigger. The haunting final image, of the adolescent daughter frozen in narcotic guilt, becomes a mere echo of a deeper work that is otherwise nowhere...