Word: allene
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...play, which is a play within a play within a...et cetera, is a spoof on Greek tragedy, modern drama and Woody Allen himself. Considering the piece is approximately 45 minutes long, the complexity is both impressive and confusing...
...Woody Allen comedy, God, performed last weekend in the Harvard Union primarily by first-year students, is a play for people already familiar with Woody Allen. This is not to say that people who have not seen Allen's classic film Annie Hall will not enjoy the performance, but there are some scenes where previous knowledge is relatively necessary to fully appreciate...
...answering this question, the play takes off in all sorts of comic directions. There are phone calls to the playwright himself incorporating a tape recorded voice that sounds pretty much like Woody Allen, and an appearance by Blanche DuBois, followed by Groucho Marx and a messenger from Western Union. All these arbitrary appearances serve to make the play a bizarre and entertaining satire of drama in general...
...play falters a little when, in classic Allen fashion, it breaks the fourth wall. The quality of "all the World's a stage," or whatever metaphysical truth that motivates this action is not particularly clear. When emcee Lorenzo Miller, played nicely by Josh Tucker, comes into the audience and introduces members of it, and drops a few Pennypacker dorm jokes, it seems a bit forced. Some of the cracks about Harvard are funny, though...
Eric Columbus does a fine job with all his considerable capacities in God--he both co-directs and co-produces, and acts. He is hilariously funny as Diabetes, and at some points, he actually appears to be Allen. The resemblance is less physical than spiritual--he adopts Allen's mannerisms and tones almost eerily. The strongest parts of the plays occur when Columbus assumes this persona...