Word: acter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pacino is almost a commuter between Hollywood and Broadway; he's played in Richard III, Mamet's American Buffalo and Wilde's Salome. Now, in a revival of the 1941 Hughie, he tackles O'Neill. Or better, wrestles with him--for this 55-min. one-acter, which Pacino also directed, is virtually a one-man show. A conversation a lonely man has with himself, it requires that the actor bring theatrical variety to monologue monotony...
...weren't depressed you'd be an idiot," one character tells another in Woody Allen's one-acter, Central Park West. The words might equally sum up either of the other two short plays, An Interview and Hotline, that opened off-Broadway last week under the collective title Death Defying Acts. All three offer humor of bile and bite...
...baroque dialogue is too often mind boggling rather than thought provoking. It doesn't help that he has his characters talk with distracting Slavic accents -- illogical in any case, since they are all speaking their native tongue. Slavs! is not without wit, and it is only a one-acter, but as Kushner's first play since Angels, it is one act's worth of disappointment...