Word: theresa
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...sitting on that couch in the dark, my next-door neighbor is pounding on the wall, and I can't get up to turn it down! I am not prepared for this - I haven't even heard the chorus and I'm like - what? St. Theresa in Ecstasy? Jesse Orosco at the bottom of the pile, end of the '86 World Series...
...Theresa J. Chung '98--a non-resident tutor at Cabot House this year and first-year proctor next year who just finished her first year at Harvard Law School (HLS)--also stresses her appreciation for what Harvard has to offer as a motivation to stay involved with the College...
Rebecca Gilman's new play, Boy Gets Girl, having its premiere at Chicago's Goodman Theatre, eases us so skillfully into an utterly recognizable world--Theresa is a single magazine editor whose (largely arid) love life is the object of curiosity to friends and co-workers alike--that its unraveling grabs us with special power. Tony, the good-looking but rather clueless date, won't stop calling. He shows up unannounced in her office. There are signs he's watching her apartment. Soon Theresa has a stalker on her hands. And we have one of the finest, most disturbing American...
...play avoids predictable paths. It is not a thriller--though the tension builds inexorably. Nor is it a diatribe about the victimization of women. Theresa, played with empathy and toughness by Mary Beth Fisher, is indeed a victim, but also a strong, fallible, fully realized character. As the terror mounts, she is forced to call the police, move out of her apartment and finally change her name and her life. But there's never a cry for pity, a whiff of the self-righteous. When her ditsy secretary confesses that it was she who gave Tony her home number, Theresa...
Gilman has a tragic vision of a society in which men and women cannot see each other as human beings. Yet her social comment grows organically out of credible, unexpected characters: the co-worker who offers Theresa comfort but also sees material for a story; the crass but oddly sympathetic porno filmmaker whom Theresa interviews for an article. Boy Gets Girl grasps at big ideas, but reaches the heart and the head with equal force...