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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>none too fragile’s ‘The
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>Novelist and screenwriter
Cormac McCarthy’s well-crafted diatribe on the meaning of life and death is a
brilliant piece of work.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Dense with
thoughtful reflection, poetic in its composition, and eloquent in its
articulation of diverse philosophical outlooks, “The Sunset Limited” is a
pleasure to listen to but displeasing to watch.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is, quite frankly, a lousy
play.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>In it, two guys engage in
a faith-versus-reason debate.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>White
(Richard Worswick), a <SPAN
style="BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black">Caucasian<SPAN
class=apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>professor, is deeply committed
to rational thought, atheism and the <SPAN style="COLOR: black">suicide he has
contemplated for years.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></SPAN>Black (Myron Lewis) is an <SPAN
style="BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black">African-American </SPAN>ex-con turned
devout Christian, who happens upon White on a subway platform and cuts short his
attempted suicide leap. Now they sit at a kitchen table in Black’s austere
tenement apartment, to talk things through.<SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>And talk and talk and
talk.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>More intervention than
theatrical production, “The Sunset Limited” has White and Black state and
re-state their respective arguments with no dramatic arc and very little
dramatic action for an uninterrupted <SPAN style="COLOR: black">1 hour and 45
minutes</SPAN>.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The words are
wonderful but, my, how they accumulate.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>For more of this review,
go to: <A
href="http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/features/article_cb7ed1f2-3c24-11e4-ba07-03994ac57bf8.html">http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/features/article_cb7ed1f2-3c24-11e4-ba07-03994ac57bf8.html</A><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>