Word: buts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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IN NEW YORK the air breathes back at you. Along 45th St., in the heart of the theater district, the limousines queue up at the curb like a funereal parade. As if staged by some cynical scenarist, a drunk's reflection appears in the shiny black of one of the...
Like Harpo, Gerald Hiken as Strider trots out a herd of hilarious facial contortions as he narrates his own sad story. Born a piebald--spotted with two colors--Strider can outrace but not outgrace his rival, Darling the stallion, who leaps and pirouettes with Baryshnikov's physical elegance. Strider loses...
Actually, cold is not quite appropriate; queasy is better. There's something unsavory about the actions. All the mental and physical sickness, the frenetic activity, the bestial violence--in fluid drama it might contribute power, but in one that's disjointed and essentially static it's just lurid.
Within the confines of this problematic script, the three actors do not perform poorly. Richard Kavanaugh (Scooper) thrives on the satirical scenes, timing his funniest lines well, and delivering them in a booming baritone that reverbrates about the small theatre. He wears a sardonic frown that embodies his contempt for...
April Shawhan (Dierdre) is most convincing in her dissolution. Its cause is twofold; a redoubtable father, and a unwieldy imagination. She's pretty but tarnished, a potential alcoholic perhaps, whose zest for discovery is insatiable. Of the three, she best expresses the frailty that foreruns her breakdown. When it comes...