Tofu Prayer

Written by Joshua Tyler


I decided something last year, and seeing In Good Company this past week only solidified it. I like Topher Grace. A lot. He’s like a young Tom Hanks, only with a softer, gooier center. To see it, you’ve got to get pastrepparttar sarcastic weaponry he waves in front of him for protection; an armor of irony and affectation to wrap around a humble, everyman center.

Recent rumor has him fully abandoning “That 70’s Show” in favor of trying a full on movie career. I’m all for it. Ashton Kutcher, who decided to stay withrepparttar 109737 show despite growing film success, is naturally pissed. But then Ashton never had any actual talent to begin with. With Topher, we’ve only scratchedrepparttar 109738 surface.

In Good Company is a huge step inrepparttar 109739 right direction for him, as a corporate asshole who’s not really much of an asshole. He’s thrown into a position of wealth and authority far too young, and can’t think of anything more creative to do with his newfound success than buy a Porsche. He buries his emotional damage beneath a forced, congenial exterior as he’s barraged with personal and professional failures. It’s impossible not to like and sympathize with Topher, even when he’s playingrepparttar 109740 right arm of a faceless, life destroying, corporate monster.

Dublin, Ireland’s Abbey Theatre Celebrates 100

Written by Kriss Hammond


Dublin, Ireland’s Abbey Theatre Celebrates 100 Read Jetsetters Magazine at www.jetsettersmagazine.com Read this entire feature FREE with photos at: http://www.jetsettersmagazine.com/archive/jetezine/shows/theater/abbey/abbeytheatre.html

Everyone in Israel is an archaeologist, while everyone in Ireland is a poet (or writer, playwright, or singer, or atrepparttar very least, a critic).

Mirth and merriment is woven deeply intorepparttar 109736 fabric ofrepparttar 109737 Irish consciousness. You can sit in a pub and inrepparttar 109738 middle of a conversation they will break out in passionate song or quote prose and poetry from William Butler Yeats or other national literature heroes. After all, this isrepparttar 109739 Isle that inventedrepparttar 109740 limerick.

The National Theatre of Ireland is celebrating its centennial in 2004 with nationwide events called Abbeyonehundred that not only sees wonderful staged plays atrepparttar 109741 theatre that W.B. Yeats built, but major museum shows about drama, acting, and even stage sets.

For ten decadesrepparttar 109742 Abbey Theatre in Dublin, has staged provocative dramas and comedies and musicals by playwrights who have observed and absorbedrepparttar 109743 tumultuous changes that have taken place in Irish society. Since 1904 these distilled and poignant revelations have been revealed onrepparttar 109744 two national stages,repparttar 109745 Abbey andrepparttar 109746 more recent Peacock.

The new Abbey Theatre in Dublin rests onrepparttar 109747 namesake of WB Yates' original theatre.

26 Lower Abbey Street 00 353 1 887 2200 www.abbeytheatre.ei

The Abbey was founded at a time of social, political and intellectual ferment in Ireland and its story is well woven intorepparttar 109748 fabric ofrepparttar 109749 nation. It has served with distinction in assertingrepparttar 109750 Irish identify underrepparttar 109751 yoke of English rule. The names of its champions are legendary and it is fascinating to see among themrepparttar 109752 names of so many women, among them Maud Gonne, Augusta Gregory, andrepparttar 109753 English philanthropist Annie Horniman, who bankroled Yeats' thespian endeavor. William Butler Yeats' own vision ofrepparttar 109754 Abbey at its inception was a vision not only ofrepparttar 109755 future for drama butrepparttar 109756 future of Ireland. The decades have seen considerable applause and a predictable quota of criticism and controversy prevaricated byrepparttar 109757 Abbey.

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