Word: twilight
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Opening the SpeakEasy Stage Company's fifth season is Jonathan Tolins' The Twilight of the Golds, an over-the-top but entertaining look at the darker side of scientific progress. The play focuses on Rob Stein (Jeff Miller) and Suzanne Gold-Stein (Serena Berne), a happy yuppie couple who discover through genetic testing that their unborn child is going to be gay. In the end, they decide it's in the best interest of all to terminate the pregnancy...
...short, The Twilight of the Golds as about what humans do when thrusted into god like positions. Who has the right to do what-and why Who benefits' Who loves. The play gets its name from Wagner's Twilight of the Gods, the final opera in his epic Ring Cycle. But other than being David's current operatic obsession and occasioning some very nifty sound and visual effects, the Wagner link is really nothing more than a pretty connection that distracts more than it enriches...
Paranoia is the undercurrent we hear rumbling throughout The Twilight of the Golds. The message is clear: Gay men land those who love them should get up in arms lest they be eradicated from the planet. If we're not careful, we'll lose out on good citizens like David Gold. This discourse of extermination Tolins initiates, which we are supported to hear as a Holocaust echo, is unconstructive and leaves us mired at square one What Tolins does do well and should have done more of is examine why the Gold-Steins wealthy, educated liberals, the people we would...
...with all its faults, The Twilight of the Golds deserves a meaningful look. It'll tick you off for a number of reasons, make you laugh (listen for the planting trees in Golan Heights joke) and maybe shed some tears When it originally opened in New York two years ago, one woman found the play so moving that she look out an ad in the Times in an effort to raise money to keep the production afloat for as long as possible. If nothing else, The Twilight of the Golds is a gripping story, important and timeless, it seems, with...
...century is a millennium in pop music. When Lennon was killed, a teenager sadly remarked, "This is the death of a generation--my parents'." Beatlemania II might amount to little more than a geriatric palpitation for a Boomer Brigade that has no Lawrence Welk to usher them into their twilight years. What are the Beatles to the kids of the mid-'90s? Last month Anthology video director Bob Smeaton had Ringo on the editing screen as a 19-year-old watched. "I said to him, 'Who's that?'" Smeaton recalls, "and he says, 'Ah, that's Paul...