Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strongest warning came in July, when Arafat's gendarmes claimed a seventh torture casualty, provoking an anti-P.A. riot in the victim's hometown of Nablus. When the trouble spread to nearby Tulkarem, Palestinian security suppressed the unrest by shooting and killing a protester. The revolt sent shock waves through the P.A. and raised concerns that other insurrections would follow...
...Roxanne (Claire Rushbrook), "with a face like a slapped arse," and a younger brother, Maurice (Timothy Spall), whom she raised but to whom she has not spoken in two years. "Cynthia's really very capable," notes Blethyn, "although not the brightest." So when Hortense shows up, it is a shock and an opportunity. Secrets will be revealed, and lies made truth, at Roxanne's 21st-birthday party, held by Maurice and his stressful wife Monica (Phyllis Logan). Catharsis is achieved a mite speedily, but the family has earned so much pity and goodwill, we want them all just to have...
...Blood:Shock:Boogie" is worth attending, if only to see performer/author Daniel Alexander Jones commanding the stage, moving so seductively that one cannot help but be enraptured by his grace. Jones' presence dominates the piece, overshadowing the two other performers, Daniel Dodd-Ellis and Jason Phelps. A hodgepodge "jam session" of black gay experience, superheroes, soul singing and Julia Child surreal fantasy, "Blood:Shock:Boogie" is wildly entertaining and ingenious at many points. Its greatest attribute is a lack of commitment to narrative and straightforward meaning, so that its entire commentary on life experience rests on the exact moment that...
Unfortunately, its lack of a narrative line is also "Blood:Shock:Boogie's" main liability. The piece ultimately fails when, in it's final moments, Jones attempts to instill seriousness and dramatic coherence into its chaotic structure. When Jones and his sidekicks stop moving, stop making the audience laugh, they become boring, and the piece ends 30 minutes too late...
...this weekend, the man behind the puppets, Igor Fokin, died of heart failure at the age of 36. The death came as a shock, according to family and friends...