Word: anties
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DESPITE exceptional acting by most of Christ's Clowns, however, their crusade is not as humorous as playwright Barnes intends. Try as the actors and director do, they fail to turn Barnes' anti-clerical, left-leaning lines into truly hysterical happenings. Barnes' comic moments are often one-liners, and they grow few and far between as the play progresses. Some of the lines even seem anachronistic--like the one about God: "She is Black...
After three hours of levity among corpses, both Barnes' script and the actors fave a hard time convincing the audience that the time for sadness has come now that the dying is done. Barnes continues to hammer at the same arguments, the same feminist, anti-clerical strains that he has touted all along. Whatever power they had earlier in the play, these ideas are already beginning to lose their comic appeal, and when made serious, they fall flat. The actors--who look ridiculous to start with in their spectacularly clean frocks, rags and robes--really cannot effect the change with...
...playwright Martin Sherman's Bent can be read as a parable for the anti-gay paranoia in this age of AIDS. (It is thus appropriate that this production's proceeds will go to a local AIDS action committee.) But its literal subject, the persecution of gays in Nazi Germany, stands up well enough on its own dramatically...
Operation Rescue, an anti-abortion group based in Binghamton, N.Y., has proclaimed Saturday "National Rescue Day," and has organized protests around the country to prevent women from entering abortions clinics...
They also say the law under which they were charged, forbidding dissemination of anti-Soviet propaganda or agitation, is being softened in the revision of the Soviet criminal code...