Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some people have found a way to forgive: even parents who lost their beloved children; even kids who won't ever walk again, or speak clearly, or grow old together with a sister who died on the school lawn. But other survivors are still on a journey, through dark places of anger and suspicion, aimed at a government they fear wants to cover up the misjudgments of police; at a school that wants to shift blame; at the killers' parents, who have stated their regrets in written statements issued through their lawyers but who still aren't saying much...
...adults, Klebold had always come across as the bashful, nervous type who could not lie very well. Yet he managed to keep his dark side a secret. "People have no clue," Klebold says on one videotape. But they should have had. And this is one of the most painful parts of the puzzle, to look back and see the flashing red lights--especially regarding Harris--that no one paid attention to. No one except, perhaps, the Brown family...
...ELECTION Cold, driven, hilarious Reese Witherspoon cares far too much about a school election. Matthew Broderick, the teacher supervising it, goes into sexual overdrive as he tries to cope with her machinations. And director Alexander Payne makes a dark, smart, sexy farce about the American ways of winning, losing and screwing...
...BASH Three monologues by Neil LaBute, each exposing the dark deeds hidden behind ordinary faces. Though his pessimism is a bit forced, LaBute writes sharp dialogue and has created some juicy roles, two of which gave Calista Flockhart a chance to help us forget Ally McBeal, at least for a little while...
Although its humor is often dark, comedy does not escape this production. As the precociously naive and fashion-impaired George Aaronow, Juri Henley-Cohn ('00) delicately handles and balances a role which, had it been exaggerated, might have destroyed the naturalism of the piece. As Shelley Levene, an aging seller desperate for a comeback, Paul Monteleoni ('00) continually provides the play with energy and freshness. If ever this humorous vitality turns unwieldy, Monteleoni always manages to rein himself back in with a sudden change of tone or an expression that reestablishes realism in the scene. Although saddled with...