Almost always, even in dire plays, you can count on one good performance or line.
Salisbury Playhouse: The Salberg, to 16 Jan LG The fascinating life of Jackie Kennedy Onassis is yet to form the basis of a musical (although the dire play Onassis, about her husband, did make the West End a few years ago), but how about one inspired by her lesser-known aunt and cousin instead?
For further substantiation of Hunter's dire play-long message, a patron at The Few need only look at the photograph on the program cover.
It turns out every film ever made could have been improved by having Walk Of Life by Dire Straits playing over its final scene.
In interviews, they express the same dire concerns: playing professional jai alai has lost its sheen, and the fast-paced game, once an attraction to aspiring athletes and thousands of fans across the country, is flirting with extinction.
Chile, although their defending of set-pieces was dire, probably played the most fluent football of the tournament, and although Colombia underwhelmed in the quarter-final, they comfortably topped their group.
I doubt it, considering how absolutely dire England played.
By the time he had finished playing Dire Straits's unreleased "Sultans of Swing" for the first time in July 1977, record executives called to express interest.
And the music had a full range of impact, from Mr. Redman's wary opening solo lines to ballads, to funk, to moments of dire, volcanic quartet playing that bore the mark of mid-period Coltrane (the era of "A Love Supreme").
But at the same time we don't want to take it to far because then we would only be playing Dire Straits," Stephen explains.
