Word: nash
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bush had lunch in 1982 with millionaire developer Walters, the major stockholder in Cherry Creek National Bank, to discuss financial backing for JNB, which Bush planned to launch with partners James Judd and Evan Nash. Walters quickly made $300,000 available to Bush to open JNB in January 1983. This enabled Bush to draw a more satisfying salary of $60,000 and provided generous operating expenses...
...essence the play is a debate about the independence of art from the artist. Through use of a tape-recorder, the narrator and the director exchange insults. "YER MAN" refuses to perform large sections of the play out of spite, Nash threatens to slap him with hemorrhoids. The narrator, a seasoned artistic creation, joins the union of characters who meet surreptitiously in the recesses of the writer's mind to plot his overthrow. He laments the creation of new, politically native characters who flood the job market...
...constantly striving to free himself from the power of his creator, slowly goes insane. A large part of the appeal of this play is the perverse joy of watching the narrator self-destruct. And since "YER MAN" is part of Nash, in a sense we are watching Nash self-destruct...
...That Nash can hold the audience's interest singlehandedly for over an hour is a tribute to his tremendous acting ability more than the inherent power of the play. Sometimes the self-consciousness of the work becomes ponderous...
Indeed, 'tis some blarney lads in this production. Irish lads, I dare say, fine fellows all--though distinctly resembling a Nash fellow I knew once. As Nash would say, "I wouldn't mind only...