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...left wing. In the suburban pubs and fringe theaters that form London's equivalent of off-Broadway, playwrights have been declaiming for months against Thatcherism and for the nuclear freeze. Two provocative British plays that recently made it to Manhattan, Caryl Churchill's Top Girls and Steven Berkoff s Greek, include oblique denunciations of the Tory leader. A new West End musical, the earnest, tuneful Blood Brothers (book, music and lyrics by Willy Russell), charts the plight of twin boys separated at birth, one raised in the fetid poverty of the post-welfare state, the other...
West by Steven Berkoff. A Berkoff play (Greek, Metamorphosis, Hamlet) is simultaneously avant-garde and deja vu. Actors in whiteface mime extravagant gestures, confronting the audience with stylized, scatological invective. It is like being back in the rumble seat of '60s performance art, but with a raw poetic urgency. Other English play wrights may update Shaw; Berkoff wants to be an East End blend of Sam Shepard and Jean Genet. West, the first of his plays to infiltrate the West End, can be seen as a new West Side Story. Mike (Rory Edwards), leader of a quintet of Hackney...
This is the Theater of Too Much- a hothouse of voluptuous imagery where the adventurous playgoer can find weird refuge. As director, Berkoff has molded his performers (including Edwards and the frighteningly dynamic Bruce Payne) until they are as mean and disciplined as an inner-city basketball team ready for the playground playoffs. s work is not for everyone; but for audacious originality, he is the top boy in contemporary British theater...
...second position, junior Chip Robie, one of five veterans from last year's title crew, survived a first-game scare to rip past Army's Joe Berkoff...
...Rick Berkoff...