Organized by the Association of Professional Working Parents, the evening was an opportunity to use the much-talked-about book and film as a starting point for tackling knotty work-life balance issues.
The knotty screenplay, which proceeds in fits and starts, makes a daring and mystifying leap near the end of a story that culminates with a trial that is never shown.
This need for faster change, greater change, is one of the "complex, wicked, dangerous" problems that Schreiber likes to deal with, and she makes it sound less like a never-ending riddle and more like a knotty ball of wool that we've already started unravelling.
It's hard to come up with concrete answers for such knotty questions, but there are few better places to start the discussion than by watching and absorbing Bamboozled.
There's just no real sign they're making the progress they need to on untangling knotty issues and it's not clear how long they can go before people start calling this a failure.
Mr. Potter gave that one an unaccompanied tenor prelude in the spirit of Michael Brecker, starting sparse and gradually constructing a complex edifice, phrase by knotty phrase.
These and other enjoyably knotty issues in and around theatre criticism and blogging will be debated next Monday night, starting at 6pm, at the Royal Court theatre in London.
Rates start at about $300 for rooms that offer plenty of antebellum charm, like exposed brick walls and knotty pine floors; in-room breakfast is included.
Our adventure started idyllically: a martini and a veal chop at Freddie's, a local watering hole, with yellowed knotty pine walls, a jolly after-hours crowd and friendly waitresses.
