Word: pillars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reach that golden age I've dreamt about for too long, I value the struggles I've had to endure. From street corner begging to Semitic stumbling, I've gone through a lot for that invaluable substance that has become a pillar of my existence. But I worry, now that I am legal, will I have to turn to crack for excitement...
...years Britain's Barclays Bank has been a pillar of South Africa's financial community. And for the nearly 2 million South Africans of British descent, the bank's eagle logo has been a symbol of their country's few remaining links to the land of their ancestors...
...PILLAR OF FIRE in this way achieves a monumental trivialization of death. Lantry isn't much concerned over his victims' deaths, the victims don't care too much either, and the audience would like to see all of them buy the farm. The result is not only an overwhelming feeling of boredom, but an undermining of the ostensible point of the play: that isolation from the reality of death...
...FORMS of literature, bad science fiction is perhaps the least easily adapted for the stage--a point painfully demonstrated in the Dunster House production of Ray Bradbury's Pillar of Fire...
...fact, Pillar of Fire would have been better conceived as a comedy; two-dimensional science fiction that tries to be serious inevitably falls flat in the three dimensions of the stage. As it is, this is one play that deserves to be teleported into hyperspace...