Word: acter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wilson is a writer with a quirky gift of humor and a romantic bent for a lyrical line, but this entire one-acter seems to be happening in the past tense. Sally and Matt are an appealing duo, but a two-character play without imminent Pinteresque menace is a good facsimile of claustrophobia...
Prefer your comedy with some psychological thrills instead of social satire? Then check out Dumbwaiter, a one-acter by Harold Pinter, at the Explosives B Cabaret. It's a vaudeville comedy, in the tradition of Laurel and Hardy, that will keep you on the edge of your seat in suspence (according to director Peter Sellars). A piece for two actors--we can't seem to escape these British two-man works this weekend-Dumbwaiter pre-dates the playwright's well-known "Homecoming," and might be interesting for those who'd like to see early Pinter, as well as those...
...play is not about lesbians, only about the dark, anguishing suspicion in Strindberg's mind that his wife may be one and may have betrayed him with one. In this play-outside-a-play Strindberg (Max von Sydow) is directing a brief one-acter of his own called The Stronger. The actual play that Strindberg wrote is a 15-minute monologue in which a voluble wife tests her husband's adamantly silent mistress...
...Albert Innaurato's sensibility operating from a totally different angle of vision, one needs to attend his one-acter The Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie, which is part of a double bill called Monsters at off-Broadway's Astor Place Theater. In contrast to Gemini, Blimpie is as joyous as a bleeding welt. It is a lacerating look at adolescence from the freakish vantage point of a boy of 14 who weighs...
...FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST. I still have not seen this, but everyone says I should. 7:30 at the Charles Playhouse, 75 Warrenton Street, Boston. THE TIGER, a one-acter by Murray Schisgal, opening the Boston Repertory Theater's Wednesday Night Workshop. Their other productions are ANIMAL FARM and THE LITTLE PRINCE. 8:08 p.m., Berkeley and Marlboro Streets in Boston...