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Ivewritten beforeabout the critics tricky mandate to take shows on their own terms.

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Its tricky because, like so many catchy phrases, it cuts two ways.

Im just and he paused for a moment Im just so tired of Good Actors Acting Well.

I laughed, but Ive also never forgotten his words.

Theyre also not a particularly intrepid piece of programming.

Its embarrassing because I know its something that you will have noticed.

Theres a hole running through the center of my stomach.

You must have all felt a bit awkward because you’ve got the option to probably see it.

The skin and the shell of me.

I thought it was a gradual slope …

Swimming there, with the sun, even bright as it is above us … Alex returns again and again to debates that hes had with Arthur about God Where is he?

Is he in the sky?

… Is he on the edge of our galaxy?

… Is he 15 billion light years away?

We tread water, sunlight playing on the surface above and endless depths of shadow below.

In contrast, Cracknell keeps Gyllenhaal almost entirely confined to a single spotlight in the dark.

Gyllenhaal is at once sharp and fluid, easy in his own skin and agile in his voice.

Im no good at this, he confesses as he tries to cope with his screaming newborn.

I miss him too much.

I dont know how to give her what she wants.

Sea Wall/A Lifeis at the Public Theater.