Word: monster
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...help but feeling that my mother was right. If peer pressure forces Calvin into baseball hysteria, I hope his mom can provide the same kind of voice of reason to remind him constantly of the cosmic silliness of Abner Doubleday's monster creation...
...broke it up into little pieces--16 steps running with my hamstring muscles, 16 steps with my quads, hamstrings, quads, hamstrings. I powered up the whole hill without stopping, and when I got to the top, a half-dazed smile crept onto my face. I had beaten the monster of the Boston Marathon...
...Monster appropriately opens with the the company's choreographed performance of what appears to be a Celtic birth ritual. This is a play mainly about birth, death and the symbolism surrounding them in sixth century Celtic culture. The vocabulary through which the complex themes of the play surface is often mytho-poetic...
Until the very end of the play, the men of Monster are devoid of the humanity, which the women like Macha and her child Etain embody. The final resolution, where Lord Owain comes to lay down his weapons and his machismo, is problematic. His character has not been properly prepared for the metamorphosis. His chastity after his wife's death and his late embrace of a more empathetic way of life cannot be convincing, because, throughout the work, his character has been flat and static. Even if we did believe the change, we would know it was not entirely autonomously...
...Malpede's male characters are personifications of the worst of masculine qualities, her goal is not a celebration of the ways of men. She has the noble aim of showing the strength of women and celebrating life and birth. Her aim is realized. The cast and the production of Monster are generally strong, and the text rich. But above all, the thematic content is rewarding...