Word: mud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Coast," the litaneous recurrence of tragedy does become uninteresting: one begins, at times, to wish for a hint of lives that are not being slowly ground down. But these are remarkably few weak points in a collection of 11 stories: and in stories like "The Half-Skinned Steer," "The Mud Below," and, most strikingly, "Brokeback Mountain," Proulx reasserts herself with a force that has grown and become refined since the fine Heartsongs collection. She has developed herself as a chronicler of memory, and her protagonists in these stories are more psychologically compelling than even the strongest characters in Heartsongs...
...some Shakespeare in Love-style gritty subplots. For all its dedication to the original version, Hoffman manages to imbue this retelling with a number of strangely random eccentricities. From pixies who bear distinct resemblance to Madonna and E.T. to a scene in which a catfight descends into Victorian female mud-wrestling, the film tosses enough curve balls to satisfy those who miss their Stoppard...
...MUD Directed by Leah Altman '99 Produced by Adam Hickey '99 At the Adams House Pool Theater April...
...Mud is excellent. Dan Hughes `01, Kevin Meyers `02 and Jessica Shaper `01 shoulder their roles effortlessly. They cut through Fornes' web of sexual anxiety, illness and desire with an unwavering humanity. Though their dialogues are primitive and border on stereotypes, they steer clear of condescension, and the play pushes far past the social limitations of its characters. Mae finds the escape she sought in her children's encyclopedia of sea-life in the play's ability to transcend class and intellect and to relocate tragedy in her simple speech...
MSNBC Rating [3 missiles] John Hockenberry is suitably disheveled doing his talk show live--at 4 a.m. local time--from Tirana, Albania. Maybe he gloats a tad too much over the mud stuck to his wheel-chair. You're tough. We know. VIEWERS...