Word: servin
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...Pink, who won't tip, snarls back at the guys when they point out that waiterssing is a hard job. He snaps, "So's workin' at McDonald's, but you don't feel the need to tip them. They're servin' ya food, so you should tip'em. But no, society says tip these guys over here, but not those guys over there. That's bullshit...
...meet Charlie, the eight year-old newt expert who, with his best friend Servin, hopes to capture a giant turtle in the marshes near his house. We meet his father Ivan, an astronomer whose obsession is to study the supernova in Chile, and his mother Polly, a professional photographer who feels as though she does not spend enough time with her children. And Hoffman also introduces us to the 11 year-old Amanda, whose goals are simple--to study gymnastics with Bela Karyouli and to have her braces...
...watch it destroy the lives of her family and her friends. Polly and Ivan begin to argue and then cease to communicate at all, as each parent tries to justify his daughter's death. Charlie retreats into his own thoughts when his best friend's mother refuses to let Servin play with him anymore because she feels her son might catch AIDS from touching Charlie's hand...
...bank after the first three months of the tour, and start asking her the usual questions: How do you like the surface? (Been ply'in on Sportface, here it's faster. The ball really skips off it, not like the regular carpet. I like it. I been servin' the best Aow've ever been...
Playwright St. John Ervine (rhymes with "Injun servin' ") ceases to be mild-and well-mannered-only in his irate slashing away at the younger generation (the heroine's smug sons and selfish successor); but the younger generation hits back by refusing to seem convincing. And the older generation, whatever its higher virtues, seems awfully short on verve. So does the production itself, which puts an extra curse on the play...