'All' but Emotional Connection to Viewer ; Clever Dialogue and Drama Can't Conceal the Emptiness and Lack of Clarity in Story
The Washington Times › February 22, 2008
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"Where are you from?" A fairly standard question, but it's an emotional land mine for homosexual hustler Omar (Carlos Candelario), the elusive protagonist of Alan Ball's play "All That I Will Ever Be," currently inhabiting the dark corners of Studio Theatre's 2ndStage under the direction of Serge Seiden.
Mr. Ball, who wrote the screenplay for "American Beauty" and the HBO series "Six Feet Under," is known for his skillful exposure of shallowness and bad behavior among America's privileged classes. Here, true to form, the elite of L.A. deign to mingle from time to time with the lowly workers - sex and otherwise - and everybody's using everyone.See the full content of this document
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'All' but Emotional Connection to Viewer ; Clever Dialogue and Drama Can't Conceal the Emptiness and Lack of Clarity in Story
There is no smoother operator than Omar, who is either a Persian stallion, a sexy terrorist type, an Arabian knight named Farouk, or ...
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