Word: modiglianis
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...David Modigliani said that he was at this dinner because he imposed himself on people, and the Sandrine’s waiter who motioned for him to quiet down would not argue. He offered a poem, “Transactions,” about an elephant trainer who got traded to another circus, and a loud and funny impression of his Italian grandparents...
...late wednesday night, Ebony's putting on her sex show, and her audience is panting for more. But the 20-year-old, sitting behind a big black desk with her tanned Modigliani face framed by long tresses of orange, brown and bleached-blond hair, leaves them hanging. She considers some of the questions from the audience, flashes a 200-megawatt smile, then coyly brushes off a fan who wants to know if she's wearing panties. Another asks her to take off her bra, but she pays no heed, instead riffing on the joys of drinking tea at night...
Maybe it's the high price of movie tickets or the proliferation of blockbuster special exhibits. But people are visiting art museums as never before. We're brushing up on our Bruegel and mastering our Modigliani in museums across the country--and we're taking the children. Perhaps ambitious parents are putting art appreciation on their to-do lists, or maybe more adults are simply discovering that attending a museum with their kids can be a wonderful way to spend time together...
...parts. Teresa, played by Emily Knapp '03, is perhaps the most likeable of the sisters; it's a shame that she has to spend so much of the play intoxicated. The most successfully genuine moments of the play center around the reminiscences of Teresa and her husband, Frank (David Modigliani '02), as they describe their early courtship. Catherine (Lisa Faiman '03), the youngest sister, appears to be a walking stereotype of moderate rebellion. She seems to suffer the most from unrealized potential, frequently stumbling into a somewhat monotonous level of contrivance...
While each performer appears in all five plays as a different character, some scenes seem more closely tailored to the strengths of one individual or another. Gowl and Steinberger are hilarious as an elderly couple suddenly able to speak only Italian as the result of a failed experiment, and Modigliani's wonderful deadpan shines when he plays an inefficient government bureaucrat. Keefe's brown-nosing graduate student is so distressingly accurate that many audience members shuddered visibly, no doubt recalling past experiences in Literature and Arts courses. The production, designed by John Gordan '01, was simple yet effective. The blank...