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But then, of course, there were delays.
ImagineJonathan Swifthaving supply-chain issues only to discover that the English had actually started eating babies before he could publish.
You feel untethered, says another man, as they gather.
Well, I suppose you are.
Plus one of the councilmen is missing.
Still, the towns old business very,veryold business will not be denied.
Having trouble remembering all those names?
No problem, most of them are mnemonics.
Mr. Peel is the hero with thin skin; Superba is top man.
Breeding (Cliff Chamberlain), struts and preens like a gorilla in season.
This determinative nomenclature is a little nod to Dickens and a peep into Lettss comic methods.
He therefore finds much to be delighted by in meeting minutiae.
The clerk mispronounces Mr. Assalones name every time she calls the roll.
Oh, here we go, the language police, grumbles Mr.
Breeding, after saying ten offensive things in a row.
Language police might describe Letts too: He has fun with infractions.
There are a lot of Tony Awards on that stage.
Letts has a rapid pinprick wit, and he inflicts real damage in the plays early sections.
These fools thinktheyre Olympians, and who gave them power?
The Minutesbegins as sly frustration comedy.
Its the opening of one such record that plunges the play from lightness into desperate gravity.
The show suddenly becomes clumsy.
But inThe Minutes,Letts isnt content simply to point at history: He wants to impart its horror.
The play shakes and starts to fly to pieces, a Superleggera car taken off-road.
His touch is so perfect and light when hes doing realism that reality obliged and caught up to him.
Knowing what he does now, what play would he write?
Would that blunt ending be the same?
I wont believe it.
The Minutesis at Studio 54.
