Word: patrick
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...Robert Patrick now gives us Kennedy's Children, a play he claims is about the "need for heroes and leaders and stars that both made the sixties and betrayed them." In Kennedy's Children, each of five characters sits in a bar, gets drunk, and relives a personal and national tragedy. At the rate of ten platitudes per minute, they try to "unfuck themselves from the sixties." They fail and the play fails; the playwright, like his characters, cannot detach himself from the decade he is trying to analyze...
Without dialogue, plot, or development, the monologues soon become tiresome and cliched. Patrick cannot sustain tension in this round-robin of self-revelation. He reveals more and more of each character, but he merely brings surfaces into finer focus, never taking us into the souls of the characters. The final speeches are searing, but we cannot empathize: by this time the characters have deteriorated into stereotypes capable only of synthetic emotion...
...Oxford Ale House customers have to prove they are 19 before being admitted, even though the law hasn't been passed yet. Patrick Melendez, an employee there, said yesterday. "We wanted more of a college-type scene," he said
Kennedy's Children. This new play beginning its pre-Broadway run at the Wilbur this weekend was a success in London, so it might be worth checking into. It's by American playwright Robert Patrick, and its cast includes Shirley Knight, Kaiulani Lee, Barbara Montgomery, Don Parker, Michael Sacks and Douglas Travis...
While almost no one thinks that anything dramatic can be done soon, former New York City Police Commissioner Patrick Murphy says: "Any step forward, even just a ban on the Saturday night specials, is a step in the right direction." Adds John Kaplan, professor of law at Stanford: "It is going to take 30 years to resolve this problem. Even then you are never going to end all gun crimes. But you can substantially reduce the number of them by restricting guns, which gradually wear out or disappear. Once they are less available, fewer crimes will be committed with them...