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Bristow is a double agent who works for both the CIA and a mercenary underworld outfit known as SD-6 that she once believed was part of the CIA. Her father, with whom she has had a lifetime of chilly relations, does the same. She is sent in different guises (many involving loud dye jobs and midriff-baring tops) on international missions on which she has to pretend to do what SD-6 wants while really doing what the CIA wants. She also, and invariably, has to overpower a huge gent who's packing heat...
...wading pool takes up nearly the entire stage. Ten actors--some dressed in togas, others in modern-day suits--jump in and out of it to re-enact the myths of Ovid. There's Phaeton and his chariot; Midas (in the chair) and his daughter; Orpheus and his underworld voyage. Writer-director Mary Zimmerman's lovely, deeply affecting work (an off-Broadway hit moving to Broadway in March) recaptures the primal allure of the theater--it's fake; isn't it wonderful? Using stage devices that delight with their low-tech ingenuity and a text that modernizes without patronizing...
...addition to selections from the Odes and the Epistles, Ferry also read a passage from his translation of the Sumerian epic Gilgamesh, which tells of a trip to the underworld reminiscent of the Western epic traditions. There was also a special treat for Vergilians in the audience as Ferry read a passage from his yet to be completed and published translation of the Georgics. Ferry premised this selection with the humorous remark that Virgil must have read Paradise Lost, since the Georgics as he reads them constitute in some respects a work about men’s struggling through life...
...only is there no paper trail, Ali's system avoids bank charges, transmission delays and foreign exchange regulations. All that hawala requires is trust. And that, ironically, is why it thrives in the underworld. No one cheats, Ali insists. And if they do? He looks a little shifty. "The small gain will not be worth the bigger price," he says. "You will lose respect, and for a man, honor is his most important asset." How about his life? Ali laughs. "Yes, if someone is very upset, he might want to kill the thief," he says. "But it seldom comes...
...wheels was still on top of him. His legs and feet must have been over on the other side.” It is this contrast between outlandish actual event and cool, indifferent narrative reaction that makes Dogwalker as powerful as it is. The lurid events and dark underworld that his characters inhabit suggest that Dogwalker is a serious commentary on the isolation and desolation that has become endemic in contemporary society...