Word: perhapses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ZY: I would like to quote Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Kundera was from a socialist country like I am. It's difficult to make a good film without pressure, or perhaps that it's likely that pressure tends to lead to the production of more interesting...
Perhaps modesty induced Scottish playwright C. P. Taylor to choose "good" as the title of a play that undoubtedly merits the superlative form of its headlining adjective. Certainly this was the lingering impression after watching the freshman rendition of Good, running from Oct. 22-30th at the Agassiz. Acting...
The cast, as well, is small, with several actors playing multiple roles. Most notable among the student actors are Knapp and Sack as Anne and Maurice respectively. As Halder's lover, Anne tackles some of the plays most contrived lines--"if we are good to those around us...what more...
Good may perhaps lack the universal appeal of more straightforward, conventional theater. But stylistic preferences aside, this production of Good could hardly have been better.
On the other hand, Bourke's use of first-hand material is admirable; she deftly explores soldiers' letters and diaries. Perhaps this book would be better read as a collection of war narratives than as a general history of killing.