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Toys in the Attic--Cabot House...
When John Kennedy came back from his Vienna summit with Nikita Khrushchev in 1961 he was full of stories about the Soviets' possible intrigue, from smuggling a small atom bomb into the attic of their Washington embassy to monitoring his calls from the White House. How should the U.S. counter it? Kennedy was asked. Go into a protective cocoon? No, he replied, if we did that we would soon be like them. There probably was no answer, he insisted, until the Soviets changed...
Lillian Hellman's Toys in the Attic has all of these. Yet the point of this Tennessee Williams-style southern potboiler is not to shock, but to tell a story of the destructive power of greed, anger, and jealousy--and of the equally destructive power of naivete, truth and love...
...willing to excuse such gesticulations, as well as the new Henry, one may find the Cabot House production of Toys in the Attic suspenseful and powerful. Whether or not it shocks the audience, Hellman's tragedy remains an intense, disturbing play...
...MEMBERS OF THE PRESS corps pressed into their tenement attic-turned-playroom, the children went about their business of making potato block prints...