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[font=Verdana,Arial.Helvetica,sans-serif][size=-1]San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: efgkt[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif] "All You Need has an air of youthfulness, with its rollicking live music, fresh-faced performers and quirkily episodic sensibility. If the wry tone sometimes recalls the radio show This American Life... Sweeney Todd redux this isn't; Shuch uses the metaphor of consumption to investigate all forms of desire. Jesse Howell and Jennifer Chien retread the 'eat me' exchange as a tentative sexual proposition: 'It's gonna hurt. ... It's not safe,' they warn. An ensemble dance to the old standard 'All of Me' takes on sinister shadings with the lines 'take my lips... take my arms.'"[/font]
[font=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif] "All You Need has an air of youthfulness, with its rollicking live music, fresh-faced performers and quirkily episodic sensibility. If the wry tone sometimes recalls the radio show This American Life... Sweeney Todd redux this isn't; Shuch uses the metaphor of consumption to investigate all forms of desire. Jesse Howell and Jennifer Chien retread the 'eat me' exchange as a tentative sexual proposition: 'It's gonna hurt. ... It's not safe,' they warn. An ensemble dance to the old standard 'All of Me' takes on sinister shadings with the lines 'take my lips... take my arms.'"[/font]
