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...alone, for we catch him in a moment of intense prayer. (The play captures many of its characters in prayer, a device that neatly resuscitates the traditional dramatic soliloquy.) Espy is an aging, equivocating figure caught in an equivocal time and place: contemporary South London, a run-down environment in which brutality and indifference raise doubts about the church's relevance. He's the sort of man whose ability to see both sides of a question is cited as a lack of vision by those who perceive life with a terrible clarity--the world view, for instance, of the much...
...been feeling run-down...
Both movies explore what can be learned from exposing "normal" people to the Other and vice versa. The social experiment in "To Wong Foo" occurs in Snydersville, where our heroes stay while waiting for their ancient Cadillac to be repaired. Expectedly, the town is a backwater, the hotel is run-down and the townspeople are suspicious, ignorant and/or misogynistic, Of course there is conflict--it is dealt with; the whole town befriends the visitors, and the queens wave a tearful good-bye. Everyone, except the homophobic cop and the wife-beater, is a better person, and they all live happily...
...increasingly run-down condition of the Square sparked new activism among local residents. That, along with the building of the MBTA's Red Line, created a Renaissance of sorts in the area...
Their hope was three-fold: to give children there the opportunity to play soccer and to have a safe sport area which would help bind the community together; to give a precious new possession to a run-down area; and to lift people's spirits and their pride in the community. They were slapped in the face...