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...first play, a one-acter called The Room, debuts at Bristol University. About a mysterious visitor to a down-at-heel apartment, it sets the tone for the major Pinter plays to come...
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...
...pageantry was, in a sense, just business as usual. But last week's peerless one-acter also marked a new spirit in the productions of the Windsors, the royal repertory company that takes the country as its national theater and itself as its subject. Horseplay was on show as much as horsemanship, and high spirits sometimes got the better of high style. Here was the first great spectacle graced with the trendified traditionalism of the second generation, the young royals. Even the Queen forsook her trademark bucket-size handbag for a small clutch that could have been borrowed from Daughter...