Word: mistresses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Russell has always been caged inside the beautiful mad creatures he imagines artists to be. No distance, no irony, no coherence, no prisoners. And no surprise that Russell now turns to Gothic, Stephen Volk's script about the famous night in 1816 that Byron (Gabriel Byrne) spent with his mistress Claire Clairmont (Myriam Cyr), his lover John William Polidori (Timothy Spall), his friend Percy Bysshe Shelley (Julian Sands) and Shelley's wife-to-be Mary Godwin (Natasha Richardson). From that spectral evening emerged Mary's idea for her novel Frankenstein...
...times Wilson asks too much: not even Jones can make this man, so cool and competitive toward his sons, believably ecstatic at word that he is "gonna be somebody's daddy" by an unseen mistress. And it is unlikely that he and his wife, so eager for respectability, would debate this news in the backyard, with neighbors' windows a dozen feet away. Nonetheless, in craftsmanship, poignance and lingering impact, Fences represents a major step forward for Wilson. In the decade or so since the emergence of David Mamet, the American stage has not heard so impassioned and authentic...
...Barton, marooned on the same island with the lonely men. For almost three decades, according to the original version, the Yorkshireman lived womanless, out of reach of the English language. In Coetzee's tale, the estrous Susan is in search of an abducted daughter. En route, she becomes the mistress of a ship's captain. Mutineers seize command and set her adrift in a small boat. It grinds ashore on the celebrated island, and within hours she is in the company of the white man and his mutilated servant, made tongueless by some cruel and nameless enemy...
...analyzing the institution of the French royal mistress during the reigns of Louis XIV and Louis XV, I have had to combat with skepticism from those who dismissed the project as frivolous. At the beginning of the fall semester, when thesis topics were the stuff of dinner table conversation, mine always provoked the most interested and amused responses...
...until they lose all comic momentum. The cast moves like clubfooted puppets; they would be more fun if they had been photographed watching the Weather Channel. Beyond Therapy also suffers from something like pestilential bad timing. It is, after all, the story of a bisexual guy waffling between his mistress and his male lover. Durang, who has made wondrous mock of such sacred institutions as Roman Catholicism, child rearing and the Hollywood musical, might have considered confronting the last taboo by updating his satire to the Age of AIDS. But no. The play has come to the screen inert...