Word: watchings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Taking its title and its cue from Shakespeare's Sonnet 29, the final moments of the play are unbelievably lyrical. Queenie is offstage. In her place, we watch Smitty (Tom Roulston), the young innocent who has become a cruel opportunist, try to express his honest concern for Mona (Frank Storace). Under Patricia Flynn's direction, the conversation, the pleading, the reaching, and the grappling tumbles out so quickly that an audience can't sort out all that is happening. We see love as the confusing and desperate and tortured state it sometimes it. And, for once, we feel it, when...
...play The Bonds of Interest. And certainly real people could never be as funny as they were last night in director Paul Cooper's adaptation of the play. Cooper's assemblage of cheaters, misers, scheming ladies, and boisterous servants--especially in the second act--gives you much more to watch than you could ever take in. You often miss good lines, but on the whole it doesn't matter; there are lots of others. Cooper has conserved all the sharpness and wit of Benavente's script, adding some delightful touches...
...from the puppet's innards steps a shapely brunette in a bathing costume who announces that she is "Capitalism." Soon a 30-foot-long white-and-green-colored dragon winds its way through the gasping audience. "The Communists are coming-Help! Help!" shriek the onstage characters as they watch the approaching dragon. A puppet king, Vittorio Emanuele, pushes forward the shapely brunette in the bathing costume. "Only you, sweet Capitalism, can save us," he says. The dragon growls ferociously at the brunette and starts to wind itself around her body. She moves seductively within its coils, rubbing her breasts...
...Patriots' Day and it's the big one. There are many famous legs in the Boston Marathon, and Thousands of people take time out from their busy lives to watch the greatest exhibition of masochism in the Boston area. "It's all worth it," said one entrant, "until you see all the guys getting sick in the Prudential locker room afterwards...
...that eat together and try to ignore everyone else, but things are fluid enough so that everyone has some casual friendships (casual in the sense of chance). Few are aware of it, but it is these casual friendships that are one of the millstones around the Cliffie's neck. Watch out for casual friends! Your casual friend is the girl who tells you she is about to start piano lessons or the girl who shows you the new boots she's bought, the girl you hear has just gotten an A on her anthropology paper or the girl...