Left at home, sleepless and alone — I have a mother somewhere, but I never knew her — I imagined that each shirt on the floor was a dead uncle and I could not leave the tipsy life raft of my bed, waiting out those long nights when the ocean fog was cool and full of premonitions and the beacon at the end of the breakwater threw green shadows against the walls of my room.
Left at home, sleepless and alone—I have a mother somewhere, but I never knew her—I imagined that each shirt on the floor was a dead uncle and I could not leave the tipsy life raft of my bed, waiting out those long nights when the ocean fog was cool and full of premonitions and the beacon at the end of the breakwater threw green shadows against the walls of my room.
Tipsy with their new life, the Malloys come to believe in their own finesse and good fortune, unaware that Dale Malloy Todd Stashwickk), a cousin and the brutal leader of the Travelers, is determined to hunt them down.
Tipsy on a Sunday morning, life was alright.
But the joy of the piece lies in its highly disciplined account of the hero's disintegration, superbly played here by Paul Ready as the harassed sculptor, Rosalie Craig and Robyn Addison as the women in his disordered life and Marcia Warren as a deliriously tipsy neighbour.
Or to those who watched the episode of Comedy Central's "Drunk History," earlier this year, when a tipsy, laughing Haddish described — or tried to describe — the life of the fabled French art historian and Resistance member Rose Valland.
What with 10 virtuoso pop-ups altogether, fans may well pardon David A. Carter for a text that, aside from its challenge to find all the spots, counts for little — his commentary ranges from the self-evident "Yellow on red and 19 Black Spots" to the arch "Tipsy tassels teeter" and the particularly inapt "Twisting still life sunflower," dominated by a hefty red doughnut.
They are characters from an above-average TV movie inhabiting this new "ground zero" - the sharp-witted sister, the distracted mother, the too-hurt father, the ethnic boy, the life-is-tough adolescent girl, the oddball murderer, the tipsy too-ebullient grandmother and the crumpled, touched-by-tragedy detective.
The acoustic ballads Love Is Your Name and It Ain't Easy are refreshing new turns for the singer, and for songs with rougher edges like My Own Worst Enemy ("I could play Seagram's for all the whiskey/And for the tipsy that's still here on my breath"), Tyler's vocal rasp suggests a life experience that younger singers are forced to fake.
"Mini-sculptures," Mr. Dubois called them, an alternative life for objects that don't usually rate a lot of attention unless tipsy people are flinging them across barrooms.
Eve, who was a bit tipsy, yelled that Jane was "an embarrassment" who didn't want her to have a life.
