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...play, currently running at the Boston Center for the Arts, proves the mettle of McDonagh's script. Presented by the Sugan Theater Company, Engel's production aptly demonstrates that this hit Broadway play can be brought to the smaller stage without losing any of its sardonic bite or ferocious wit...
...Charlie's Angels" had a sterile approach that contrasted sharply with its reputation as the foremost example of "jiggle TV." Having been a teenager during that period, I can assure you that sexier situations cropped up in any random installment of "The Battle of the Network Stars" (to wit: Heathers Locklear and Thomas locked in a carnival-style dunk tank wearing flimsy swimsuits...
...With Luka and Peppel out of the picture, the fourth act suffers from lack of direction. This was partly Gorky's intention. Satin (Nick Meunier '02) picks up the slack by translating some of Luka's wisdom into a sardonic wit more accessible to many of the drifters. The cast, however, has a bit too much fun joyriding, which takes away from the impact of the pointed suicide...
...shown how it's possible to be sophisticated without being jaded. Chief political correspondent Eric Pooley is a diligent, probing fact finder who has constantly dug deeper into topics that others were treating glibly. And our columnist Margaret Carlson has, throughout the year, provided a tangy mix of sharp wit and common sense, as she does with her column on Bill Clinton this week...
...19th-century scenes seem less even. Particularly in Guest's case, the performances are less subtle than perhaps they should be, less evocative of the dry British wit that the other half of the cast masters more handily. Guest's reading of Hodge is troublesome: His Hodge is too boyish, too adolescent. This approach to the character succeeds during Hodge's exchanges with his young pupil, with whom he gradually falls in love. It is touching to see Hodge become awkward and fumble for words as he is increasingly undone by his teenage student. But Guest seems to neglect that...