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Just when Americans were starting to calm down about air travel, Subash Gurung decided to fly from Chicago to Omaha, Neb. The jobless Nepalese man, here on an expired visa, got through security at O'Hare airport last week with five knives, a stun gun and a container marked TEAR GAS/PEPPER SPRAY. After a search at the gate uncovered the weapons, Gurung was arrested but soon released on bond. He was taken into custody only when he returned to O'Hare to pick up another bag, filled with more knives. And in the story's grim punch line...
Unfortunately, ill-advised screen usage and poor sightlines are not all that plague this production. Awkward staging also sinks a number of scenes, including all those in which guns figured prominently. Every scene that features a character holding a gun and threatening another is unbelievable and loses its dramatic build, both because of the way the actors hold their weapons and the way they react to the situations. And among the more curiously flawed scenes is the second act opener, “Bui Doi,” which occasionally feels like a Sally Struthers commercial and at other times...
...show a weapon, but he pointed to his pocket and made threatening comments indicating he had a gun...
...stocky, blond man approached one graduate student, said he had a gun and demanded money...
...tired of the roof. Khademudin seemed relieved, and announced he would drive back with us. On the way back down, this time thank God with the headlights on, we caught a rabbit in our beams. Khdemudin moved unexpectedly fast, grabbing his AK 47 and bounding out of the minivan, gun cocked. I watched with interest, wondering how much would be left of a bunny shot at close range with an assault rifle. It escaped...