Volume 9, Issue 1

The Departed

• Rated: R for strong brutal violence, pervasive language, some strong sexual content and drug material
• Director: Martin Scorsese
• Producer: Martin Scorsese, Brad Grey, Jennifer Aniston, Brad Pitt, and Graham King
• Cast: Jack Nicholson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Mark Wahlberg, and Martin Sheen
• Writer: William Monahan
• Time: 2:30

Gangster movies will forever be popular with Americans. White Heat, Little Ceasar, Angels with Dirty Faces, Mean Streets and who could forget The Godfather.

Martin Scorsese delivers like no one else can. He returns to the genre that made him the great director he is. This film is a character study of people we read about and never want to meet in a dark alley; crooked cops, thieves, prostitutes and drug dealers.

The Departed is not his typical underground professional Italian mobster film. He returns for the second time to an Irish gang. His first was in “Gangs of New York.” Scorsese is a master portraying the human condition, and he tells his story that encapsulates the essence of the city he films.

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Volume 9, Issue 1

Theater Review
by Amber Murray

Connor McPhersons’s
Dublin Carol

Ok, I’ll admit it. It wasn’t just Conor McPherson’s brilliant writing or Trinity Rep’s fantastic reputation that made me want to see Dublin Carol.

I didn’t make the trip to Rhode Island just for lovely little bits of Irishness like The Claddagh Connection and Aiden’s Pub (both in Bristol). I went because the chance to see William Petersen take the stage for the first time in seven years.

When I settled into my seat on closing night, I found myself drawn completely into the world of John Plunkett, the fifty-something alcoholic undertaker’s assistant. Petersen disappeared into that role, as he and his co-stars brought the reality and poignancy of McPherson’s drama to living, breathing existence.

“It’s been a great run,” he said, over one of the Trinity Brewhouse’s excellent microbrews. “The audience has been great, we’ve sold every ticket, and they’ve just been fabulous. It’s gotten deeper and richer, and it’s been an almost perfect experience for everybody. This is probably as good a production as this play will ever get.

“The only reason I could do it,” he continued, “is ‘cause it’s a short run, only five weeks, and I only had to miss a couple or three episodes (of C.S.I.). It’s a great piece; it’s just a beautiful play.”