Word: self
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SOME self-proclaimed baseball afficionados (the effete ones in my book) say that one should appreciate the game for good play and beauty in the abstract--and the rooting might even get in the way of a higher, detached understanding. Bullbleep. Ya gotta root. (I cannot, for example, believe that my erstwhile colleague, National League prexy Bart Giamatti late of Harvard's great rival to the South, doesn't still pull for his beloved Red Sox, even though his present post demands an appearance of august impartiality within his new Leaue, and crusading zeal against his old favorites...
...there's his Loyal But Timid brother Frankie (Daniel Hurewitz), his Embittered sister Sally (Diane Paulus), and his Oedipally Overnurturing Mother Lorraine (Susan Schwartz). Their counterparts in Beth's family are her Vengeful brother Mike (Sam Sifton), her Death-Obsessed Hunter father Baylor (Jon Tolins), and her Fearful And Self-Deluding mother Meg (Jenny Lyn Bader...
...PEER(LESS) Gynt a social satire? Is it an updated Norwegian folk tale? Is it a meditation on man's quest for self? Is it just an avant-garde joke? I don't know; it's hard to tell...
...skeleton of the original is still recognizable in Prascak's version. The plot is basically the same: Peerless Gynt, a young dreamer-adventurer, spends his life in restless self-imposed exile from his one true love, the everpure Solveig. During his travels, a plethora of temptresses, trolls, lunatics, and other fanciful creatures test his wits, his consciousness, and his sense of identity...
...performances are, for the most part, cartoonish. T.J. Mitchell (Peerless Gynt) delivers all his lines with a self-conscious self-importance, while Jennifer Lack (Aase) shrieks all of hers at the top of her lungs. Listening to the two of them argue is like listening to Daffy Duck argue with Yosemite...