Word: mourner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...displaying issues of death on the live stage and by exploring and expanding the voices of the living, The Mourning After exposes the audience both to loss and life. McGee's decision to represent the mourner through multiple voices propels a unique and creative production. If you are interested in unconventional student drama that uses the stage to explore issues in a new way and displays amazing directing and acting talent, The Mourning After should be included in your weekend plans...
When Clinton spoke briefly in the Rose Garden after the vote, he looked, finally, grief stricken and empty, like a mourner left alone with the empty Jell-O molds and casserole dishes after the funeral. The adrenaline was gone, and the friends dispersed. His wife, welded to his side through most of the bitter fight against Starr, was pointedly absent in its Rose Garden aftermath. Her refusal to shut the door on a run for the Senate in New York could almost be taken as an announcement that she is open to a de facto separation, a psychological divorce. Bruce...
What Col. Lindbergh should have said is, "We must be as impersonal as the professional mourner, who doesn't lament the seriousness of the plague, or the number of fatalities, as long as it helps his own business." ROBERT E. SHERWOOD The Playwrights' Company New York City...
...depicts a man sitting behind a table, one index finger raised in exclamation. But the orator's bulging-eyed companion doesn't seem to be listening as he charmingly mugs for us on the right side of the table. Another monochromatic oil drawing casts the orator as a distraught mourner poised over the prostrate body of his friend. The work's title "Lamentation" only underscores the tragic comedy of mourning a puppet whose misty yet animated rendering makes us strangely sympathetic...
...Hughie? A fellow who used to work the desk, someone who took interest in Erie's mutterings, or seemed to. Hughie is dead now, so Erie elegizes a man he thought brought him luck. Like most elegies, this one is about the mourner. Erie needs a new lucky charm. If he can connect with this clerk--turn their parallel monologues into a dialogue--the gambler might be a winner again...