There's no taking refuge in a shared fantasy of isolation at "Theater for One".
Not least because we have shared experience, of isolation, and equally significant, we elderly people are alert to the need to avoid condescension through our own experience at the receiving end.
Her audience may be growing - has been, in fact, since the release of her debut full-length album, 2012's Half Way Home - but you'll never feel like part of a crowd, just a series of individuals, atomised and alone, with a shared sense of isolation and desolation.
These approaches can be valid but are strongly determined by local conditions, such as the type of infrastructure, the shared use of isolation facilities for other pathogens and the level of hospital occupancy.
Only after Gordy's eccentric behavior culminates in a crisis in Saul and Patsy's yard, and they become targets of local hostility, does Saul realize that the town's young people share his feelings of isolation and exclusion, an insight that leads to an unlikely -- and comical -- catharsis.
They were his tribe and shared his feeling of isolation.
A few blocks away, Randy Huyck, his wife and six children shared the feeling of isolation.
At the cafe Nikolai strikes up a tentative friendship with a young waitress, Olga Alexandrovna Anna Sinyakinaa), who shares his sense of isolation.
They also shared a sense of isolation: Roethke called himself "the oldest younger poet in the U.S.A.," and Kunitz felt the same.
Like Douglas Sirk's "All That Heaven Allows" or Nicholas Ray's "Bigger Than Life," the film is one of the many '50s melodramas that express discontent with the era's nuclear family conformism: Milland is drawn to Fontaine because she shares his sense of isolation and entrapment, something his strong, cheerful wife (a marvelous Teresa Wright) will never understand.
