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...Brits so taken with the American canon? As odd as it may seem to some Anglophiles, they find the work superior to much of what British theater is turning out these days. "The Americans offer us something we don't get in contemporary British plays," says David Thacker, director of the National's Death of a Salesman and a longtime champion of Arthur Miller's work. "They are very emotionally powerful plays--they reach the heart as well as the head. They are psychologically profound and truthful. And the best are strong on narrative. We'd have to look back...
...Horacian swipes on Catholic dogma revolve around the childhood romance of two well-intentioned social misfits. Eddie (Russ Thacker), a self-professed late bloomer, struggles to reconcile his "sinful" impulses with the rigid doctrine he confronts in school. Becky (Blackman), an overweight outcast taunted by her classmates, stumebles through her formative years asking Cod why she has been singled out. The two meet as youngsters in elementary school, and what blossoms is a classic (if admittedly mushy) romance spanning more than a decade of Catholic schooling...
...because "it reminds the boys of bed." Such uproarious exchanges between students and teachers find a delicate balance in the meditative, less bawdy musical numbers. The group rendition of "How Far is too Far" treats the issue of sex with just the right blend of comedy and thought, and Thacker's solo, "Little I at Girls," if mildly sappy, is heartwarming nonetheless...
...confused duo, Thacker and Black ran both give solid performances, particularly in their songs. Yet the real strength of the production lies less with the leads than the play's secondary characters--the despicable goody two shoes (Amy Dolan), the transgressing priest (Wally Engelhardt), the sex starved classmate (Peter Heuchling), and most notably, the vituperative senior nun (Carol Estey...
...land a man on the moon, we should be able to find an alternative way to research diseases," said Dawn C. Thacker, adding that doctors should not rely on traditional methods...