(Ben Ratliff) AMANDA PALMER The goth-gal belter Amanda Palmer reaches for rock anthems on "Theatre Is Evil," glancing back at the David Bowie of "Heroes" and the 1980s of synth-pop and MTV-friendly new wave.
"Trouble in the Schoolroom" would be the natural title for the first tableau vivant, which is then followed by the likes of "A Lecture From Father," "Tree-Trimming With Mother" and "Christmas Dinner at Grandmother's," in which Eddie and Lambert shoot evil glances at each other as the turkey is carved, while the adults sneak second cocktails behind disapproving Grandma's back.
Evil eye, glance believed to have the ability to cause injury or death to those on whom it falls; pregnant women, children, and animals are thought to be particularly susceptible.
I had to steal this picture off the internet because whenever I got my camera out around any drug paraphernalia everyone within ten metres shot me evil "NO PHOTO" glances, and snarled at me with their unbrushed teeth.
Tom Conti is a puckish, philosophic army surgeon; Albert Finney an orotund, preening police official; Edward Fox a zealous Napoleonic colonel with a sidelong glance like an evil eye.
The doctors look evil, throwing each other suspicious, sinister glances like they're about to murder her.
To the role of Kathryn Merteuil in "Cruel Intentions," Sarah Michelle Gellar brought huffy flounces, pouts, dagger-eyed glances and shrill chirpy retorts but no intimations of a deeply rooted Machiavellian evil.
The violence of stylists hurts; the evil of stylists is painful; guilt and shame, or purity of intention and noble principle, emerge in a glance, a turn of phrase, a perfectly chosen or well-made object, a gesture, an aura.
Sara loved Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, though we did share a few worried glances in the face of fleeting participatory raunch in the audience (including a cast member's too-nearby lap dance), glances that silently asked: "Am I/Are You too young for this?" The romantic triumph of good over evil ultimately saved both Natasha & Pierre and Sara & Papa.
