In a well-done production of "American Buffalo," things begin to crackle the second that the lowlife Teach makes his entrance, and Mr. Letts does not disappoint.
But I came out of there, and I walked from lower Manhattan to Forty-second Street, because it disgusted me that a lowlife like this here killed those guys like you and I would step on a bug".
Hollywood veterans Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy are superb as the Duke brothers: sinister, ageing millionaires who have a bet going that any lowlife, given enough cash and the good things in life, can pass for a member of America's higher echelons, and conversely that an upper-cruster will collapse when faced with financial adversity.
And then, just as it takes a naïf to find Paris cafés adorable — the natives find them about as interesting as diners — it took another kind of naïf to think that the lowlifes of Broadway were charming.
Michael Rouse articulates the devilish lowlife that is Jigger Craigin, and John Woodvine makes a distinguished Starkeeper.
So when the new movie that I did, "Lowlife," came around, for me it was a no-brainer to split the credit and to keep the health benefits rolling, and he was very helpful.
Fink was reading a lot of Bukowski while he was writing the album and his influence can be seen in the numerous lowlifes that pop up.
But the thieves and lowlifes that populate "Brat" (Brother) — an adaptation of the opera by Cantieri Teatrali Koreja from Lecce, Apulia, and Centar Za Kulturu from Smederevo, Serbia — mean to push audience reactions a little further.
Spud and Begbie, the invisible-made-visible, the lowlifes that Sick Boy doesn't want in his pub, are now the only speakers of full dialect in this book's new Leith, and Porno's finest pornographic revelation comes in another moment of unexpected pathos where Begbie, desperate to get rid of his migraine, is opening a box of Nurofen, a brand he's never heard of because he's been in jail.
"But those lowlifes that have taken ahold of that phrase like the Klan have it so we have to walk on eggshells".
