Word: shanley
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...dismal pay of frontline workers in mental health. They are working poor, without health insurance or hope of mobility, yet they care for people like Kennedy's aunt Rosemary, left deeply retarded by a lobotomy, as well as millions of others with disabilities. "What he understood," says Deborah Shanley, a Brooklyn College dean, "is that you're never going to have quality care if the people in this field can't afford to get into undergraduate programs, can't elevate their skills and have no hope of moving up the career ladder...
...Semerjian '99 Design Editors: Debbie J. Lee '01, Sung Hee Moon '00 Sports Editors: Zachary T. Ball '99, Bryan Lee '00 Editorial Editor: Geoffrey C. Upton '99 Photo Editors: Ronald Y. Koo '00, Samantha A. Goldstein '00, Aparna A. Sridhar '01 Business Editors: Jeremiah B. Mann '01, Melanie K. Shanley...
Psychopathia Sexualis, the latest off-Broadway effort from John Patrick Shanley (Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Four Dogs and a Bone), is, unfortunately, a model of what playwrights should avoid. It's a slim but labored farce about a young man (Andrew McCarthy) who can't make love without having his father's socks around and the psychiatrist (Edward Herrmann) who has taken them away. The stale shrink jokes wouldn't pass muster on an average episode of Seinfeld, not to mention Shanley's own better work, like his flavorful screenplay for Moonstruck. What Hollywood gave Shanley was discipline...
...same weekend to a single venue in Kentucky, the Actors Theatre of Louisville, you could have feasted on a banquet of meaty new drama: six full-length plays and six shorter ones, including the latest work of such luminaries as Tony Kushner, Jane Martin, David Henry Hwang, John Patrick Shanley, Anne Bogart and Craig Lucas. And you would have left the 20th Annual Humana Festival of New American Plays with a subversive thought: yes, theater has a place, a reason, a future...
...Four Dogs" is supposed to be a critique of the film industry, it remains rather thin. So what if these stereotypes are true? Shanley, in spite of his wonderful ear for that which is funny, has unfortunately bought into the Hollywood writing formula--the work produced is pleasurable but ultimately does not tackle any meaty themes. For an evening of merriment, "Four Dogs" is a good bet. But if a Brechtian intellectualized theater is what you're looking for, it won't be found in this dog-eat-dog farce...