Word: subtext
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...line turns on why the Queen is opening Buck House (as its staff calls it) at all, even if it's only for two months. Main text and official reason: she needs money to restore the part of Windsor Castle that was ruined in a fire last year. Subtext: p.r. to make up for the behavior of her offspring and their spouses -- Di the bulimic fairy princess, fat Fergie and her toe-sucking Texan "financial adviser," Charles' ambition to become Camilla Parker-Bowles' Tampax. Will a trot through the state rooms of Buckingham Palace raise our minds from these mundane...
...many of Fugard's other works, in which more prominent racial themes articulate the concerns of a generation of South Africans, The Road To Mecca revolves primarily around the friendship between Helen, an older Afrikaaner woman, and Elsa, a young English-speaking white South African. While there is a subtext of racial awareness in the form of Elsa's activism, this play is really the story of a special friendship between women as they discover the importance of living their lives as they will them to be, and learn how to take on the courage and responsibility...
...turned into an elegant assassin by a mysterious government agency. She and her handler (Gabriel Byrne) fall into unconsummated love. She sublimates with gunplay while growing wistful for normality. John Badham's film seems to have more firepower and slightly softer edges than the original. But the possibly liberating subtext, that a woman is entitled to be sexy and violent just like a male action star, is intact -- and well played by Fonda...
...Rendell's attempts at substance fall flat. She periodically injects clumsy melodramatic flourishes intended to highlight a thoughtful subtext to the play which just isn't there. Towards the end, one character stares out at the audience and pronounces with infinite gravity, "It's time to go home," as if he were impeaching a president. In the final scene, tourists on a bridge turn to face the audience one by one, in time with the resonant chimes of Big Ben, like so many horsemen of the Apocalypse. The play does not have a dark, gritty core, and any ponderous attempts...
...becomes Long Island (we thought she was supposed to be Amy Fisher for a while) and sometimes disappears altogether. Haste is one of Lasnight's previous nights, and now she's pregnant. She writes a kiss and-tell "scroll" and tries to convince Diana that Lastnight is scum. (Political Subtext...