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Vienna, staged off-Broadway in a church, has a sporadic text by Historian Charles Mee Jr. but nothing like a narrative. Played behind a gauzy scrim, it juxtaposes lyrical nudity and erotic mania, chivalrous honor and military obsession. Some of the images may be dreams, recounted by Freudians in the city where he practiced. Some are chillingly literal and hint of worse horrors yet to come: one woman, speaking in German of a pleasure jaunt, appears to mention Dachau, where the Nazis built a concentration camp. Most striking, however, are the wordless tableaux: the supple blond man who, with boots...
...populated by heroes with unpronounceable names who made elegant speeches and went at one another with axes. More recent memories: news analyses assuring the public that Reagan and Gorbachev definitely are and definitely are not going to accomplish anything substantive at this presummit summit. Most recent memory: the underground Broadway disco in Reykjavík, an Icelandic rock group called Strax, led by a woman with her black hair done up to look like a crow in flight, singing about U.S. and Soviet journalists vying for scoops...
...Outside the press center, half a dozen honey-colored Icelandic ponies pranced in a light rain while their blue-blazered riders carried U.S., Soviet and Icelandic flags on long poles. The government also arranged a three-hour fishing excursion and a free dinner at the country's largest disco, Broadway...
DIED. Cheryl Crawford, 84, innovative Broadway producer and co-founder of the influential Group Theatre and Actors Studio; of complications from a fall; in New York City. A tight-lipped woman in a man's world, Crawford staged more than 100 plays--among them Waiting for Lefty (1935), Porgy and Bess (1942) and Mother Courage (1963)--that helped charge American theater with a social conscience as well as the intensely psychological style of Method acting...
...tried to subvert toward hortatory ends. The plays that work best today are flights of poetry, as in his masterpiece, Heartbreak House; wistful romances, as in Candida; and whimsies about the eternal wars of the sexes, as in You Never Can Tell, which opened last week in a beguiling Broadway revival...