Word: silver
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Olympic skating silver-medalists Nancy Kerrigan and Paul Wylie '91 again performed in the 25th Evening of Champions last night for an audience...
Eliot House organizers of the event noted yesterday that the performance seemed more festive this year because of its silver anniversary...
...Silver's repartee is only emotional bait for his favorite technique shock. One wishes he had more confidence in his comedy to deliver his messages instead. Insofar as Pterodactyls is billed as a dark comedy, the comedy cannot be ignored, but by the end of the play you may forget it ever made you laugh...
Gloom never settled so quickly, before the foot lights as when Silver decides to preach issues. Pterodactyls does not descend emotional crests, it, plunges from them. In a Kathleen Turneresque growl, Grace bear down on Tommy with a triumphant speech, reaching the peak of her comic crescendo only to be interrupted by a gun discharging upstairs. Utter silence falls with the curtain as Todd intones. "Suddenly it became very cold." Manipulation reigns as Silver's king principle of craft...
...Silver's life was personally touched when he lost a friend to AIDS some ten years ago, and he claims that ever since he has been trying periodically to find the emotional distance to write about the event. If Pterodactyls represents emotional distance to him, audiences will hope he lets his next personal project percolate a little longer...