Word: queens
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...Martin McDonagh was once a hot playwright too, a few years back, when "The Beauty Queen of Leenane," the first of his Leenane trilogy, introduced this talented London-based playwright to America. Next came "The Lonesome West," but now that "A Skull in Connemara" has arrived (at off-Broadway's Gramercy Theater), the critics seem to have lost interest. True, McDonagh's mordant vision of rural Irish life is pretty familiar by now, and "Connemara" does not have the structural neatness or the tragic force of "Beauty Queen." But it has something that Lonergan's plays don't have...
...will always be a Faster. Gleick, however, portends that our racing population will eventually crash into the limits of speed. In some ways, he shows we have already done this; we have learned that one can't hurry decomposition, nor a souffle, nor love. Gleick quotes the Red Queen in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass explaining to Alice that, in her world, "It takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. Faster reveals that we are doing exactly that...
...Jerri who has to stalk the campground like the walking dead, now fully aware that pretty much everybody hates her except Amber, who after Jerri let her share her shrimp dinner was perfectly willing to pour chocolate all over herself and take her queen out to the sublimation shack in the woods. (I think that's actually one of the outtakes on next Wednesday's inaugural cutting-room-floor special...
...scruples are a little confused too. "I didn't like the fact that I had to lie, but because I was lying to Jerri I didn't lose sleep over it," Colby confided to a cameraman after his midnight chat with the queen. And the beauty is, he doesn't even have to decide for another three weeks, at which point he'll have Ogakor's two factions begging for his nod. The man's future is so bright... well, you know the rest...
...Jessica Tandy, Zero Mostel and Sara Algood all appeared during the 1940s and 50s on the Brattle stage, which showcased plays from Shakespeare to Chekhov in the Queen Anne-style shingled house...