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Crammed into the elegant and (conveniently) parlor-like Winthrop Junior Common Room, HRDC's The Cocktail Party should be seen first and considered later. Party because actually seeing the floor-level set past twelve rows of upper-class attendees requires great skill and cunning and partly because the play is riddled with T.S. Eliot's innocuously cryptic language, no distinct message leaps forth from the play. Rather, various lines worm their way into the audience, reappearing days later as pertinent homilies for the daily personal lives of audience members...
...million had assembled there. They set up, in the heart of the ancient nation, their own world within the world, complete with a daily newspaper, a broadcasting tent, even a 30-ft. plaster-covered statue they called the "Goddess of Democracy." Their "conference hall" was a Kentucky Fried Chicken parlor on the southwest corner of the square, and their spokesmen were 3,000 hunger strikers who spilled all over the central Monument to the People's Heroes. The unofficials even took over, and reversed, the formal symbolism of the government's ritual pageantry: when Mikhail Gorbachev came to the Great...
...kind word for Richards? That is the mystery facing detective Kevin Bacon, who has his own baroque agenda. Fair play forbids further disclosure of the labyrinthine connivery on display or of the detective's dirty secrets. Let's just say he has enough kinks to inspire a new parlor game: Sick Disease of Kevin Bacon...
...thinks of upon hearing the word "radio." For many, the work conjures up images of a dark past when broadcasters couldn't send pictures through the ether, an age when torchsingers from Chicago and political party conventions in Cincinnati mesmerized listeners huddled around dusty RCA units in the parlor...
...everyone can be a pool shark. If you want to treat your date to the suave sophistication of a parlor game but the Loker light-board gives you seizures, don't be ashamed. There are options...