There is a genuinely angry, earnest side to Ivins, though, and Packer, with her heavy vocal timbre, sometimes turns outrage into something closer to anguish that does not quite fit the persona of the freewheeling if crusading journalist, who succumbed to breast cancer in 2007. Packer rises to the ending, however, which is drawn from Ivins's last columns. Excoriating the Iraq war, as well as the political divisiveness that has "stolen the conversation," the author of the 1991 volume Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She? warns us not to wonder what she would say about the mess we're in today. "I've said plenty," she growls, lobbing the ball back into our court. "Hell, whaddah you say?"
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- Play by Play: August 13, 2010
Opening this week: As Bees in Honey Drown , Hairspray , and More Words! More Play! .
- Tina Packer explains the Bard for you
Tina Packer has been in bed with Shakespeare for at least 40 years.
- We band of brothers
This is the first independent production by the group of five friends who met at Boston’s Emerson College, where they helmed incarnations of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet and Sam Shepard’s True West .
- Monmouth’s Henry IV is stunning
Shakespeare's Henry IV is considered one of his "histories," as it enacts actual acts and battles of the British king who deposed Richard II.
- Master Harold erupts at Gloucester Stage
I first had the autobiographical Molotov cocktail that is "Master Harold" ... and the boys hurled at me in the early 1980s, when Nelson Mandela was still a prisoner and apartheid was law in South Africa.
- Commonwealth Shakespeare Company takes on Coriolanus
The man of the hour is running for high office, and he has the support of the party faithful and the moneyed interests, but before he can claim victory, he must ingratiate himself with the unwashed masses, even as rival interests conspire to blacken his name and deprive him of all popular appeal.
- Chad Deity is a knockout
The old actors' adage "Break a leg" does not seem an apt shout-out to the intrepid cast of The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity.
- Boston’s actors prepare for their roles in the fall theater season
Most of us have been spending our summers scarfing down lobster claws and luxuriating by overcrowded pools.
- Wave III of Black Box’s One-Act Play Festival
The third and final "Wave" of the One-Act Play Festival at the Black Box Theatre (through August 26) is another varied batch, from romantic duets to a couple of fantasies.
- Sticks and Bones packs a wallop in Wellfleet
Relevance tends to turn up like the proverbial bad penny. David Rabe's 1972 Tony Award-winning Sticks and Bones , which is being revived by Wellfleet's Harbor Stage Company (through September 8), has one foot in the froth of mid-20th-century television, the other in the morass of Vietnam.
- GSC commits Crimes of the Heart
It must have seemed a guilty pleasure to dramatist Beth Henley to win the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Crimes of the Heart.
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