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Audiences are doing just that, and critics too. Crimes of the Heart, Henley's first full-length play, brought her a Broadway hit and a Pulitzer Prize-she keeps the certificate in a desk drawer. Out of another drawer came Am I Blue, a one-acter she wrote as a sophomore at Southern Methodist University; it recently opened at Manhattan's Circle Repertory Company. The Miss Firecracker Contest, her second full-length play, has completed a successful run at Buffalo's Studio Arena Theater; and her latest, strongest play, The Wake of Jamey Foster, is charming theatergoers...
...companies in Italy and Germany. From Britain comes a nine-part series on the love life of Napoleon Bonaparte, with Ian Holm as the Little Corporal and Billie Whitelaw as his Josephine; a drama series called A Play for Love, which debuted last week with a new one-acter by John Osborne, starring Alec Guinness; and the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Macbeth, with Ian McKellen as the Scottish insomniac...
...second one-acter, Pasatieri's before Breakfast, is considerably more successful. Adapted by Director Frank Corsaro from a play by Eugene O'Neill , it is a melodrama similar in style, if not in score, to Poulenc's La Voix Humaine. The setting is a grim Depression flat. Soprano Marilyn Zschau is preparing breakfast for her husband before leaving for her own job as a waitress. While she flops around the room in her slip, she carries on a one-way conversation with the silent and unseen spouse as he gets up and goes into the bathroom...
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...