Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After a second act filled with anger and shouting between all possible permutations of mothers and daughters, the play comes together with MaDear's yells of "Jar the Floor, Jar the Floor." The players drum on the floor in unison, showing family ties deeper than the tension...
Some of their tension lies in differences of class; Maydee constantly corrects her daughter on her use of double negatives, and uses words which Lola complains she does not understand. When she says that Maydee is "teaching Black people how to be Black," Maydee coldly responds that she teaches Afro-American Studies and Political Science...
...large part of the generational tension lies in reactions to sex and sexuality. Maydee claims that she does not want or need a man, deriding Lola for always running after a "gigolo." Lola, never afraid to speak her mind, answers scornfully to Maydee that "a blanket's cuddly if you wrap it the right way." But the humor of their words cannot be contained in any of the many one-liners, but in the whole, in the interaction of all five players on stage...
Pets brained with blunt objects, toddlers gurgling for help in icy waters, small children lobbed off precipices: The Good Son is good clean fun. Despite the promising subject of a sweet-talking grade-scool psychopath, plenty of mollifyingly gratuitous violence, fine acting, and tension, the film is dull. Not knowing with precisely which weapon the final duel will be fought does not constitute suspense...
...panelist F. Warren McFarlan '59, Walker professor of business administration at the Business School, called the tension between information access and the right to privacy "the Achilles heel" of modern technology...