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Trying to rehabilitate the public image of skinheads is no easy task. Judging by Hollywood's take on the genre - see 1998's American History X or Russell Crowe in 1992's Romper Stomper - skinheads are popularly portrayed as neo-Nazi racists with a penchant for violent thuggery. Not so, contends Shane Meadows, the young British director whose new film, provocatively entitled This is England, is raising eyebrows in its exposé of this most controversial of subcultures...
...heart of Britain's former industrial midlands. It's 1983 and this declining seaside town is fired up on royal weddings and Thatcherism. A brown-skinned local businessman occasionally has to deal with racist slogans spray-painted outside his shop, but it's a world away from the violent anti-immigrant demonstrations taking place elsewhere in the country...
...Simon N. Nicholas ’07 and Chelsey J. Forbess ’07, respectively) and the younger, more hopeful Nick (Jack E. Fishburn ’08) and Honey (Elyssa Jakim ’10). As the plot unravels, so does the twisted and at times violent relationship between hosts George and Martha. Nick and Honey stay well into the night, quickly lured into their volatile, yet fascinating world. Wilner and set designer Todd Weekly hope to make the audience part of the experience by physically integrating them into the action, thereby transforming them from silent pieces...
...reminded him of what he said to me when I was in 6th grade...Time for you to be scared of me and he was. This place is still a fucking mess. It was great. Terribly uncomfortable.” A GREATER CALLINGIt’s this sort of violent, aggressive speech that has gotten the front-man in trouble before, like in 1999 when Blue’s “Slow Motion” became a lightening rod for criticism. But, before defending the song, Jenkins does something eerie: he recites all the lyrics, including lines like...
...play may be overkill. I kept on looking for a dramatic peak, but never found it—not because of a lack of drama, but because the drama is perpetually full-blast. I thought that the play had climaxed when Nicholas attempted to strangle Forbess in a grippingly violent scene. But a half hour later, and lo and behold, there is another strangulation attempt. So, perhaps the blame for the constant intensity lies with the script...