Sarah tries to help Michael kick the habit by meditating with him between sessions of violent kinky sex (choreographed with utmost realism and nudity by Yehuda Duenyas).Įven with everything he has, Michael can't seem to concentrate in his new home: His prickly upstairs neighbor Ted (an absurdly vindictive Jeff Biehl) constantly blasts heavy metal while his daughter runs amok. He's willing to reconsider his position if Michael lands a multi-million-dollar account with a famous basketball player (Otoja Abit). Senior partner Mark (Peter McCabe) insists that Michael hasn't been passed up for being black, but for being an alcoholic. 'You should be living in a five-million-dollar apartment,' fellow lawyer and romantic interest Sarah (Susannah Flood) tells him, positing that the only reason he's 40 and not yet a partner is because he's black. The only problem is that Michael doesn't live in average America, but the land of unquenchable greed. While his latest, Fulfillment (now making its New York debut at the Flea Theater), isn't as viscerally revolting, Bradshaw's mélange of race, power, and ambition will leave more than a few audience members feeling queasy.įrom the vantage point of the average American, our protagonist Michael (Gbenga Akinnagbe) has everything: a well-paying job at a prestigious law firm, an exciting sex life, and a $1.5 million apartment in one of Manhattan's coolest neighborhoods. His last show in New York, Intimacy (2014 with the New Group), soaked the front rows of the audience in simulated bodily fluids. “It seems the US Secretary of State is unaware of the mismanagement of natural disasters in the US over the past two years, and hence opines – in an unprofessional, interventionist and demagogic manner – on Iran’s management of the horrific and unprecedented floods which simultaneously afflicted 24 provinces,” Zarif said, before referencing Hurricanes Harvey, Michael and Florence and Maria.To call playwright Thomas Bradshaw a 'provocateur' is to make a serious understatement. Iran’s Foreign Minister responded angrily on Twitter two days later.

“The United States stands ready to assist and contribute to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, which would then direct the money through the Iranian Red Crescent for relief.” The regime blames outside entities when, in fact, it is their mismanagement that has led to this disaster,” he said. “These floods once again show the level of Iranian regime mismanagement in urban planning and in emergency preparedness.

“Red Crescent volunteers and staff have evacuated hundreds of people to safety, and have distributed food and items such as tents, blankets and health kits to tens of thousands of people,” the organization’s Middle East and North Africa director, Sayed Hashem, said.Ī helicopter carrying aid in the flooded village of Bamdezh, April 5.

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent said it was helping thousands of people affected by the flooding. Officials on Saturday warned residents in the province of Khuzestan of rising water levels and urged them to take evacuation notices seriously, IRNA reported. “Over 140 rivers have burst their banks and some 409 landslides have been reported in the country, it reported, adding that 78 roads had been blocked and 84 bridges in flood-stricken areas affected. The semi-official Mehr News agency says record rainfalls since March 19 have so far flooded some 1,900 cities and villages across Iran, causing hundreds of millions of dollars of damage to water and agriculture infrastructures. = best quality available= (Photo credit should read ALI DEHGHAN/AFP/Getty Images) ALI DEHGHAN/AFP/AFP/Getty Imagesįlash flooding kills 19, injures more than 100 in southwest Iran (Photo by Ali DEHGHAN / fars news / AFP) / XGTY / = RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT 'AFP PHOTO / HO /FARS NEWS' - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS = TOPSHOT - This photograph released by the Iranian news agency Fars News on March 23, 2019, shows flooded streets in the northern Iranian village of Agh Ghaleh.

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