Written by and starring an entirely Asian-American cast, this slight but consistently entertaining satire is a primer on what not to do in an audition room (1 15).
Written by and starring an all-Asian-American cast, this slight but consistently entertaining satire is a primer on what not to do in an audition room (1 15).
Satire must satirize, purposefully.
At least partly as a result, there followed the emergence of a less deferential, livelier and more engaging style of public debate, a boom in satire, and the slight fraying of the curtain between the establishment and the rest of the country.
They are too bitter to really amuse, and too slight to accomplish much in the way of satire.
The numbers, in which he both speaks and sings, are slight, whimsical and quaint but variously touched by satire, absurdism and pathos.
Modern scholarly reception has considered The Shortest Way in negative terms, as a failed satire, or as using irony so slight as to be undetectable.
Similarly, The Illustrated London News concluded that the production was a success and that the plot, though slight, served as a good vehicle for Gilbert's "caustic humour and quaint satire".
Jonson's writing contains a measure of quotable lines — "Drink to me only with thine eyes" is his — but because his sharpest gift was for savage satire, his plays lack the universal appeal of even Shakespeare's slightest comedies.
But instead of a pitch-black satire about the comfy but poisonous cocoon of fame, Mr. Lucas offers a more realistic, low-key and ultimately slight drama about two lonely women of vastly different ages and life experiences.
