We finally made it to Portland and went to Eventide oyster bar.
Crucified on either side of Jesus were two convicted thieves, whom the soldiers dispatched at eventide by breaking their legs.
"There's something timeless about the American oyster bar," says Arlin, the owner of Eventide as he talks us through the menu.
This year the poignancy and quiet ceremony of "Eventide" (1997), with its five male-female couples, showed how eloquently Mr. Taylor can work within this format.
The earlier books supplied vivid action and some more conventionally "western" doings, such as a scene in Eventide of moving bulls out of a corral.
With "Eventide" we are back in the small prairie town Holt, Colo., which Kent Haruf conjured with such intimacy and fidelity in his critically acclaimed 1999 best seller, "Plainsong".
During "Eventide" (1997), on Saturday's matinee, scratchy playing from the Orchestra of St . Lukes drew attention away from the tender relationships onstage.
In a piece like "Mercuric Tidings," which received a blissfully danced revival on the program along with "Eventide," last year's hit, the effect is sculptural and archaic.
In "Plainsong," those brothers take in a pregnant young woman as a daughter of sorts, and in "Eventide," the townspeople rally to protect a family from an uncle who has lost his way.
Throughout "Eventide" (1997), this fine cast, even better than the original, imparts a sensation of floating, as if to underscore the point that the stage is a repository of drifting memories.
The season's greatest revelation so far has been the revival of "Eventide" (1997), set, for five male-female couples, to Ralph Vaughan Williams's "Suite for Viola and Orchestra" and Hymn-Tunes Preludes, No. 1.
