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...trilogy straddles the line between reality and fantasy. In its opening story, "Duncan's Kingdom" (previously published in comic-book form in 1999), a knight embarks on a dangerous mission in order to win the hand of his beloved princess, but along the way gets distracted - in a send-up of the grail quest - by the hunt for something called Snappy Cola. The second story, "Gran'pa Greenbax and the Eternal Smile," focuses on a miserly frog who must confront his thirst for riches when he finds himself the subject of a Truman Show - like plot. In the final story...
...friend? JL: He was actually our graduate student mentor at Yale, John Demos. When an academic retires, his graduate students usually hold a conference to celebrate his work. Jane and I decided that for our piece of the conference we were going to write character sketches that were a send-up of 18th-century genre fiction. It took us a week to write these character sketches, and it was fun. So we kept going, and before we knew it we’d batted back and forth 100 pages.3. FM: What was the time frame? JL: We started writing...
...plays have ranged from politically loaded docudramas, like David Hare's Stuff Happens--an account of the Bush Administration's run-up to the war, with a focus on British Prime Minister Tony Blair's role as overzealous cheerleader--to angry satire, like Embedded, a biting if overwrought send-up of the selling of the war, featuring Administration stand-ins with names like Rum-Rum and Gondola, written and directed by Tim Robbins for his L.A.-based Actors' Gang. The war has been a jumping-off point for psychological family drama (Christopher Shinn's Dying City, about a war widow...
...connected. Some of Ellen’s monologues often have little bearing on the plot of the play, but these and similar moments create the context that keeps the play from being one-dimensional.The play ultimately walks a fine line between satire and something more tragicomic. One feels that a send-up of Hollywood and its literary cannibalism can’t be the end goal of the play; the target feels too easy. The play is stunted emotionally by its one-liner mentality, and while it may intentionally explore the superficiality of Hollywood culture in its dialogue, its affectation...
...connected. Some of Ellen’s monologues often have little bearing on the plot of the play, but these and similar moments create the context that keeps the play from being one-dimensional.The play ultimately walks a fine line between satire and something more tragicomic. One feels that a send-up of Hollywood and its literary cannibalism can’t be the end goal of the play; the target feels too easy. The play is stunted emotionally by its one-liner mentality, and while it may intentionally explore the superficiality of Hollywood culture in its dialogue, its affectation...