Mulcahy's transfixing new album, "The Possum in the Driveway," works its charms on you with quiet confidence.
By Sarah Larson May 17, 2017 Mark Mulcahy's transfixing new album, "The Possum in the Driveway," works its charms on you with quiet confidence.
This article originally appeared on VICE IN.
But the English class system worked its charms on this dangerous radical.
Major League Soccer did its best to work its charms on a gorgeous Friday evening, treating me to a tight 2-1 Red Bulls victory that featured three more goals than I anticipated seeing.
Josquin's "Qui Habitat in Adiutorio Altissimi" ("He That Dwelleth in the Secret Place of the Most High") worked its charms through canonic imitation, with a single voice growing inexorably to 24, with increasingly involved interplay among repeating melodic strands.
The charm works its ancient magic.
As a vehicle for former matinee idols on the wrong side of 40, "Present Laughter" is ideal, a purring vintage Daimler that simply requires a magnetic actor of finely honed comic gifts to work its considerable charms.
Watching Cinderella work its considerable charms on the audience was a salutary reminder that theatre's task is always the steady, patient suspension of disbelief, the reawakening of the child in the audience.
