Word: sardonicism
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It seems to be the season for savvy playwrights to slip. Neil Simon's musical adaptation of his The Goodbye Girl left out the good parts, David Hwang's Face Value closed in preview, and now Lanford Wilson (Talley's Folly, Burn This) has opened REDWOOD CURTAIN, a would-be...
With the exception of the sardonic jester (John Berman), who embodies jaded urban humor at its best, the male characters are generally insipid. Thankfully, their female counterparts easily cover for this lack,... so to speak.
FACING UP TO WIDOWHOOD, LUCILLE (Diane Ladd) fakes merriness, Doris (Olympia Dukakis) makes a tart-tongued second career out of mourning, and Esther (Ellen Burstyn) remains awash in vulnerability. They are THE CEMETERY CLUB -- three nice middle-aged, middle-class Jewish ladies trying to live out their leftover lives. When...
The band's continued ability to put a sharp point on its sentiments is evident on two other tracks: the relatively upbeat rocker Ignoreland, which backs up its political conviction with grinding, discordant guitars, and the sardonic Man on the Moon, in which Stipe for once breaks free of his...
Chris Scully's set design picked up on Wilde's deliberate symbolism. In Act III, the drawing room of the country house was a mirror image of Algernon Moncrieff's London flat in Act I. Whatever Wilde's personal opinion of country and city might have been (`...and never the...