A dark comedy that evolves into a more sober drama about the painful legacies that suicide can leave behind, the play doesn't quite resolve the tension between its sardonic humor and its more sincere aspects.
It is a puzzle that Nicholas Shakespeare tackles headlong but doesn't quite resolve in his 600-page biofraphy of the dependably polymorphous, frequently perverse, kiss-me-quick-I'm- off-goodbye, damned elusive Pimpernel of a writer: the late Bruce Chatwin.
(Though speaking of which, hers is the one storyline that doesn't quite resolve. Wouldn't the FBI send her to prison for being a spy-in-training?).
MR: (laughs) The song doesn't quite resolve, so where would you see your robot a year from now? LB: I think he's still in the video game, which is sad but true, you know?
The song does not quite remember.
The evening has its overly synthetic moments, and it doesn't quite know how to resolve itself.
The evening has its overly synthetic moments, and it doesn't quite know how to resolve itself, but it earns its wall-to-wall laughs (2 15).
The evening doesn't quite know how to resolve itself, but with the fierce Ms. Lavin in charge, it earns its wall-to-wall laughs (2 15).
"Tale" has moments cut from the synthetic cloth of television comedy, and it doesn't quite know how to resolve itself.
Just as Pearl resides within Natasha, all these entities exist not in isolation but in confusion within one body, and Khan doesn't quite know how to resolve the situation.
The evening has its overly synthetic moments, and it doesn't quite know how to resolve itself, but with the fierce Ms. Lavin in charge, it earns its wall-to-wall laughs (2 15).
