Word: barman
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Dates: during 1993-1993
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Colm M., 25, is a Belfast-born barman and bouncer. More a charmer than a strongarm, Colm arrived in New York as a teenager. His father came originally to escape "the troubles." Colm, his mother and three siblings followed on visitor's visas and stayed on. "There was nothing there for us," he explains. Even so, it took him years to adjust to American cultural attitudes. "In Ireland everybody was afraid of the teacher, but here the kid would tell the teacher to F off. In Ireland you could get killed for that. First the teacher would kill you; then...
...three-dimensional nature of these characters, who are sympathetic if not always honorable. Thurston plays the sniveling, pathetic figure of the party-giver and "sugar daddy" with a sufficient amount of groveling to make his character farcical but not iritating. Fields makes the switch to his various characters (a barman, a sergeant, Lenny) with ease and enhances the dark humor on stage...