Word: wits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Daly the customary dotty unawareness of how she puts down her son, a would-be avant- garde playwright; each belittling gesture is calculated cruelty. As the son, Ethan Hawke solves the play's pivotal problem, foreshadowing the youth's instability and making clear why he and not his at-wit's-end beloved, Nina, commits suicide...
Fortunately, there exists another view of the post-colonial Caribbean, one beyond Naipaul's mordant wit and grim aspect, beyond Kincaid's condescension and Walcott's romanticization...
Three hours is a long time to spend in a cramped, somewhat overheated theater. Gilbert and Sullivan is an acquired taste, and lacks the flash and snazz of modern entertainment. But the peculiar wit of Gilbert and Sullivan is faithfully served in this performance. The two Brits would be proud to have their work so fervently reenacted...
...hostage in Lebanon, stripped to your sweat-soaked shorts and sour T shirt, chained to the wall of a cell shared with other victims, not knowing who has taken you or for how long or, above all, why. But Irish writer Frank McGuinness finds a trove of snarky pub wit and schoolboy antics in SOMEONE WHO'LL WATCH OVER ME, which last week moved from London to Broadway with its deft West End cast -- Alec McCowen as a prissy English teacher, Stephen Rea as a dissolute Irish journalist and James McDaniel as a tightly wound American doctor. The roles recall...
Time and again, the `Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands' livened the show with her infectious sense of humor and wit. Repeatedly making digs at her age, of which she shows no evidence, and replacing her "10 years ago" lines with 30 years ago," Baez had the capacity crowd on the edge of its seat in anticipation of these subtle and humorous variations of her lyrics...