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...fresh red clay. In lieu of bringing back buckets of samples or dead flowers, Patel records her findings chemically. Her primary tool, a solid-phase microextractor, is a $100 penlike device that can record the specific molecules present around anything with a smell. Fennel, cucumber, melon, tomato leaf, black plum and hydroponic celery might soon start to show up as notes in consumer fragrances. Scent notes of Japanese ginger, Indian mango, lantana leaves, evening maiden orchids and pickled jalape�o peppers could also appear in the next generation of soaps and shampoos...
...Miss Witherspoon” is not one of Durang’s best plays. Its whisper-thin plot barely covers what is essentially an exposition of the playwright’s personal theology. Miss Witherspoon (Paula Plum) commits suicide, and on her way through the “bardo” (a holding room for unfulfilled spirits that contains a curious mix of Eastern, Christian, and New Age religious ideas), learns to appreciate life on earth, finally making peace with the universe...
...Plum is an expert at mugging for laughs: she is at the top of her game portraying reincarnated roles such as a couple of babies (with the help of beautiful head-puppets from set designer Janie E. Howland), as well as a loyal house dog. Unfortunately, her warm and approachable acting style doesn’t do well on Durang’s twisted humor, and her performance comes out shallow, gimmicky, and shrill...
...supporting cast members, each of whom plays multiple roles, do better than Plum on the material. Marianna Bassham is a hoot as a Connecticut uber-mommy, and Horatio Sanz look-alike Larry Coen digs into the play’s absurdism, especially when he appears as Gandalf (yes, that Gandalf...
...reduced to ash during the firebombing of Tokyo in 1945, yet started the epic all over again, even as he lost all sight in his right eye and most in his left. One Japanese word for the rainy season, baiu, can be written out to suggest the scent of "plum rain," Dalby informs us-or to refer to the smell of "mold rain." Poetry and practicality, in other words, converge...