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...Deavere Smith takes a different, almost journalistic approach to drama. Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 is based on 220 interviews that she conducted with Los Angeles residents of every race and economic class after the city's devastating riot in 1992. Onstage Smith employs her formidable talent for mimicry to portray such characters as Reginald Denny, the white truck driver who was almost beaten to death by black gang members, police chief Daryl Gates and a Korean store owner -- all in their own words. The result is a painful, multifaceted portrait of racial differences. Says Smith: "My work is both political...
While 2nd district Republican nominee Tom Coburn sought to portray the stunning upset as a rejection of President Clinton's policies. Synar said the results were "a referendum on Mike Synar and not on Bill Clinton...
...first script for the exhibition, which will display a part of the reassembled Enola Gay, was way left of the mark. It interpreted Hiroshima and Nagasaki in a way that managed to transport a righteous '60s moral stance on Viet Nam ("Baby killers!") back in time to portray the Japanese as more or less innocent victims of American beastliness and lust for revenge. As if the Japanese had been conquering Asia by Marquess of Queensbury rules. The curators said to the American public, "Murderer! Hello...
...certainly stretches credulity to portray team member Jonathan Weinstein, 17 -- who recalls solving quadratic equations on restaurant place mats at age "four . . . or maybe five" -- as a typical product of an exemplary school system. In fact, a 1993 Department of Education study described what it called a "quiet crisis" in education for the gifted; programs proudly initiated in the 1970s and 1980s to nurture their talents have often been the first victims of the rash of state budget cuts...
...Lithgow presents a Leopold acquiescent to self-destruction, Rouse demands a more complex interpretation, reading Havel's play as a study in tragic hilarity. Rouse goes a fair distance to portray the outside world from which Leopold is excluded, transforming Lucy (Jessica Walling), Leopold's unrequited mistress, into a lascivious lover who must compete with the male "friend" Bertram, for the professor's attention, and juxtaposing the confused living room existence of the actual drama with cascades off-stage laughter between Leopold's friends, Suzana (Jessica Fortunato) and Edward (Thomas Parks...