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Perfect Days attempts admirably but never quite succeeds at being as innovative and modern as its plot suggests. The American premier of famous Scottish playwright Liz Lochhead's romantic comedy seems eerily pervaded by a sense of d‚ja vu. Two of the play's three controversial themes-the affair between the older female protagonist and a younger man, and the tense relationship between the protagonist and her meddling mother-have been long exploited in literature, theater, and cinema. The third and by far most provocative issue, the homosexual man-heterosexual female coupling that occurs between the protagonist...
...true that The Edge of Reason is not going to convert any non-Bridget fans with its self-indulgent length (352 pages? How does a busy woman like Bridget find time to write almost a page a day?). And even fans will notice that the plots of the novel don't tie together as neatly as its predecessor. Whereas the relationship between Bridget's mother and her unctuous Portuguese suitor Julio was the plot lynchpin of the first novel, this time around the mother's adoption of Wellington, a Kikuyu who is much wiser than the muddle-headed, annoying mother...
...crowded with guilt, suspicion and bleak hope. The title itself refers to the wishful thought that personal histories could be forgotten, uttered midway through the play. It could just as well have been titled, "a world without guilt," except that the word history evokes the epic complications of the plot...
...Tegan Shohet '01 has the curious role of Mrs. Walker, a wise and vaguely omniscient old woman who Gary visits nightly. Although her character is not bound to the plot with hoops of steel, she gets to play the always-welcome role of explainer, which she does with maturity and a small dose of convincing senility. Theodora Konetsovska, a visiting student from Williams, plays the ghost of Gary's dead sister, Sarah. The script calls for too many appearances of Sarah's ghost for her role to be as poignant as it could, but Konetsovska deals with her ubiquity...
...traits that are clearly reflected in the character of Robert, yet another droll and charming English confidante. He once again steals his scenes from his leading lady, especially in one comical scene where he must retrieve Abbie's key from her ex-boyfriend Kevin. Skeletally, both films overlap in plot line as well. During a scene when Robert and Abbie burst spontaneously into Doug McLean's classic "American Pie" at a funeral, one can't help but compare it to Everett's similarly spontaneous outburst of "I Say A Little Prayer" in the earlier film. In both personas, Everett also...