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The Sensualist
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KJUminor Adam R. Burnett has added a polish to the mythologized sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll lifestyle with his new play, but those looking for face-melting guitar riffs will want to take themselves — mullets, lighters and rockers for the Granada, as The Sensualist is, first and foremost, an entertaining evening at the theatre.
Leonard KU) senior Carter Wattier is an aging singer-songwriter and sexual wrecking ball claulded at least temporarily in the eyes of his women (who often spend almost throughout), by a casual demeanor and mellifluous
voice. His unbilled sensuality flutters into his women's hopeful ears via pinyn, puns, sophisticated literary allusions and well-defined character that delight both the naive romantics on stage, and the audience who knows better.
The actors have no
In the first act, Burnett builds a stage devoid of fidelity, a construction yielding hilarious results. think Tweedle-Doo's luxury of a more time worn moral fiber to work with; and then violently tears it down without hesitation in the second act, but protagonist ending up in his rubble of lies, pots, and broken hearts.
problem keeping up with the ambitious script, and the jaded wife and lonely sister played by KU students. College students Andi and Anil Porter, respectively, are standouts.
What the second act lacks in guiltless laughs it makes up by adding to the hyperbole-tuned conscientious quixotic tragedy that is Burnett's production
★★★★
The Sensualist runs through this weekend at the Lawrence Arts Center. Show times are 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Visit www.theensulist.org
an Stanford
MUSIC
by The Shins
The art of writing a good pop song has suffered lately. Nowadays, most pop songs cause prolonged vomiting chronic coughing and loss of appetite. But on their third album, *Wincing The Song Night*, the Shims show that they still know how to write good pop songs.
The album starts strongly with "Sleeping Lessons," with its driving beat and catchy melody. *Australia* sounds like classic Shains. The first single, "Phantom Limb," will be stuck in your head for days after each listen
But after the album starts to suffer 'Red Rabbits' at times, sounds like it could've been a *Song Mouth*歌 *Sound Legs* sounds like it could've been an *Episode* These songs aren't bad there! they are not forgettable.
ALL RATINGS ARE OUT OF A POSSIBLE FIVE STARS ★★★★
The Shins have said repeatedly that they hate their previous album *Chuile Too Normany*. Maybe albums like them are a little better than albums like they.
Chris Browne
★★★
02. 08.2007 JAYPLAY < 21