Hints and tips:
...When I meet Flynn, 48, in Dublin, she is fresh from her one-woman show, Not a Funny Word, which tells the story of her trip to Utrecht in the Netherlands for an abortion....
...“I’m a travelin’ woman, I got a travelin’ mind”: on the page, the words evoke a free spirit, scorning convention. Sung by Mattie Delaney, though, a different, more troubled story emerges....
...In other words, living standards have fallen by a fifth in six years....
...Botstein’s performance with the American Symphony Orchestra is not the last word on the subject but comes close enough....
...Like most of the libretto and lyrics, by Ben Katchor, however, words here are scarcely the point....
...Henry James once said that the two most beautiful words in the English language were “summer afternoon”. For me they are “no interval”....
International Edition