As he demonstrated in the dripping-with-attitude "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" and the unusually edgy "Iron Man 3," Black has a gonzo sensibility that can invest a stale Hollywood formula with an infectious sense of play.
The customers, mostly edgy young men in suits or jeans, are stoked up to their eyeballs on cola, coffee, cigarettes and any other stimulants on offer.
Received wisdom has it that edgy one-man plays about transvestites living through oppressive regimes are best left on the Edinburgh fringe.
An award-winning playwright, novelist and actor best known for creating edgy one-man shows and caustic characters like "Talk Radio" shock jock Barry Champlain, Bogosian unearths one of the genocide's obscure yet dramatic chapters.
And we've spoken about that edgier Spider-Man who doesn't pay mind to his elders as well.
Only what bears directly on the edgy symbiosis of man and master remains, and even their parts come in for trimming.
A great director (Peter Brook) has scanned the text with fresh eyes and discovered a new protagonist – not the booming, righteously indignant Titan of old, but an edgy, capricious old man, intensely difficult to live with.
From the upper-crust family of Theo's best friend, Andy Barbour, who takes him in for a time; to Theo's edgy, sad con man of a father, who suddenly returns; down to the doorman, Goldie--each character, no matter how small his role, leaps off the page.
It does make some men edgy when they first arrive, but soon it becomes no more than a half-noticed dull crashing in the distance.
The limbo of the tuberculosis ward is recalled in several places, where the boredom and edgy camaraderie of men unhappily biding their time are derived directly from the author's experience.
