Put a Little Drama in your Life
KPBS AIRDATE: NOVEMBER 18, 1998 In a seriously dysfunctional family where everyone is nicknamed for the size of their genitalia, Li’l Bit is ill-fated from birth. When she was 11 and fully developed, and no one understood her, her Uncle Peck was always there -- to lay a sympathetic hand on her shoulder -- or on her burgeoning breasts. The Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: NOVEMBER 4, 1998 Pimping. Murder. Cannibalism. Lobotomy. Sounds like the Jerry Springer Show. But it’s really Tennessee Williams. In “Suddenly Last Summer,” his 1958 Off Broadway one-act, Williams probes his familiar themes of life and death, power, greed and corruption -- with a vengeance. He brought to the American Read More →
KPBS Airdate: October 28, 1998 When first we behold poor, brain-damaged Buddy Layman, his eyes are rolled back in his head, and he’s stumbling around the stage with a forked stick, divining water. He has a mysterious connection to water and yet he’s terrified of it. Water runs all through “The Diviners,” sometimes still, sometimes a trickle, and sometimes a torrent. Read More →
KPBS Airdate: October 28, 1998 When first we behold poor, brain-damaged Buddy Layman, his eyes are rolled back in his head, and he’s stumbling around the stage with a forked stick, divining water, while onlookers stare in slackjawed amazement. Water runs through and through “The Diviners,” sometimes still, sometimes a trickle, and sometimes a torrent. James Leonard, Jr. has woven Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: OCTOBER 21, 1998 Okay, so your mother washes her hands 1000 times a day, to the accompaniment of opera. And she has a spastic colon and lives in fear of everything and just keeps wishing that “life will go away.” And your father, a judgmental German-Jew who escaped the Holocaust, lives a life of interminable disgust, disappointment and Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: OCTOBER 14, 1998 Music inevitably marks our history -- both individual and collective. Two current shows tell a story through music: one conveys the evolution of a people; the other marks a moronic moment in time. They’re as different as black and white. “It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues” Read More →
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-Pat Launer