Word: soliloquys
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...Away Eyes" is pure fun, as Jagger and Richard do a hokey country ballad about a truckstop girl "with far away eyes" in Bakersfield, California. Jagger's satire of radio preachers is particularly humorous. The album closes with "Shattered," a wierd soliloquy on the perils of New York, which Jagger talks-sings over a murky riff. Jagger sums up life as "laughter, joy and loneliness and sex and sex and sex and sex," and gloats ironically, "Look at me, I been shattered...
...peppery performances stand out. Matt Landers delivers a rousing soliloquy about how he quit a bank job because it was unreal and stopped being a cop when he began to hate people. As a fireman, he salvaged dignity and purpose in saving lives. Playing a call girl, Patti Lu-Pone displays a languid, undeluded cynicism that stingingly implies that the U.S. may be a nation of hustlers...
...stress the other side of the emperor--the cool, calculating, dispassionate side. After a while, the audience feels like it is on a roller-coaster--one gets the stop-and-start effect, but it's a little difficult to enjoy the scenery. He does show potential in his final soliloquy, as well as in the last moments of the play when he risks his health by falling several feet from a platform, blood dripping from numerous bodily wounds, contemplating the certainty of death with a believable look of awe, ecstasy and agony...
Then Hooft decided it was time for a soliloquy. He bagged a double pump drive, picked up a bucket underneath and dropped a brace of corner jumpers. Allen then drilled home a pair and the gap was cut to 69-65 with 10:20 left to play...
...between the two can become. At one point, one of the actors asks the audience to set the scene for the meeting of a Breezewood character and one of the members of the company--as though such a meeting were in fact possible. And in the show's final soliloquy, the eradication of the line between art and life is given psychological--as well as sociological--significance as Nancy Ross, the bitchy aging actress, wonders at the extent to which she has merged with the character of Lorna Charles. By the end, it seems as though the actors...