Word: acte
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Oscar nominee Judi Dench makes a turn here as the aged Elizabeth in Shakespeare in Love, but her appearance repeats her stubborn curmudgeon act from Mrs. Brown. Incidentally, that film and Elizabeth are eerily similar in their portrayal of the relationship between a queen and her trusted manservant...
...first act of the play, we meet Michael Majeski (played by Will Paton), newly returned from his trip to Valparaiso, Chile. He becomes an instant celebrity, telling his story to vacuous interviewer after vacuous interviewer. Majeski is a wonderful subject: he always tells the story with the same words, with, as he later notes, "the same thoughtful pauses in the exact same places." He leaves nothing uncovered; his obsessive wife Livia (Caroline Hall) happily joins the circus, offering reporters intimate details about their life and marriage. The reporters eat it up: Livia boasts that Michael has done "65 interviews...
...second act of the play, the set is turned into the set of a talk show: the audience in the theater becomes the studio audience. The host is Delfina Treadwell (Randy Danson), an unholy combination of Ricki Lake and Oprah Winfrey intent on getting at her guest's deepest, darkest secrets. Her guests on this occasion are Michael and Livia Majeski. "What are you hiding in your heart?" she asks Michael. A series of revelations ensue when she doesn't believe Michael's story, necessitating a major reinterpretation of what has transpired...
Most importantly, final clubs are dangerous. Not only have female guests often found themselves in compromising situations, but the clubs also constitute a potentially hazardous environment for the surrounding community. Last year, three students were arrested for throwing bricks from the roof of the A.D.--an irresponsible act which could have resulted in serious injury. In this light, it is understandable that the graduate boards of the four clubs have expressed concerns over "alcohol-related incidents," "accidents" and "property destruction...
...Congress reversed the Court's ruling, expanding the Indian Civil Rights Act to give individual tribal governments criminal jurisdiction over any American Indian on their lands...