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lead to staggering stories in con-con’s ‘Terminus’<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Bob
Abelman<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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class=MsoNormal align=center><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Cleveland Jewish
News, The News Herald, The Morning Journal<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Member, International
Association of Theatre Critics <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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size=3>Contemporary Irish playwright Mark O’Rowe wrote “Terminus” in his spare
time.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And it
shows.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white"><FONT size=3>O’Rowe
was working on an uninspiring screenplay and in need of a distraction when,
according to an interview he <SPAN style="COLOR: black">gave to the New York
Times, he “wrote a couple lines.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>There was some rhyming going on.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>So I thought, ‘O.K., lets keep it
up.’”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black">“Terminus,”
which premiered at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 2007 and is currently on stage
at convergence-continuum </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">in Cleveland’s Tremont district<SPAN
style="BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black">, maintains the tell-tale signs of its
haphazard origins.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black"><FONT
size=3>The play unfolds as if it was conceived in piecemeal
stream-of-consciousness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is comprised of three seemingly
unrelated monologues that radically shift in tone and temperament.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They are spoken intermittently by three
unnamed characters that never interact or share a single word:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>One is a mother seeking atonement;
another is a lonely young woman looking for love; and the third is a serial
killer who has quite literally sold his soul to the Devil.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white"><FONT size=3>The
<EM><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">brogue-imbued
</SPAN></EM>words<SPAN style="COLOR: black"> that fill this 105-minute, one-act
play have retained the impulsivity with which they were written. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They flow and sometimes spew without a
filter and fluctuate between rhyming poetry, muscular prose and guttural
profanity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They are filled with
flights of fantasy and humor when not being astoundingly realistic.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black"><FONT
size=3>But when the worlds revealed in these monologues begin to overlap and the
characters’ paths converge, the method in the madness of their construction and
the brilliance in the writing come into clear and startling focus.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-spacerun: yes">For more of this review, go to: <A
href="http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/features/article_f054b33e-729d-11e4-80a2-5b567c49aef5.html">http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/features/article_f054b33e-729d-11e4-80a2-5b567c49aef5.html</A></SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>