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...bound with a classical simplicity, unity and harmony. The simple, symmetrical set, designed by Gary S. Gluck, is exploited to its full by Forrest Stone's lighting, which catches the most delicate mood and tone changes in the script. In one small shaft of light illuminating her and her captor, Antigone spends her last living moments with the guard who arrested her. Here she realizes that, after all, she no longer knows why she is dying. Thirty years ago, in February, 1944, Antigone appeared in Paris at the time of the German Occupation. Under the threat of air raid...
Despite danger and disease, Stringer carries on, planting sensors and calling in air strikes. Sick from rotten water, he hallucinates a slippery dialogue with an imaginary captor. The jungle becomes his world and his home. When Army helicopters come to rescue him, he shoots them down...
...struts across stage, rants, raves, and philosophizes. Polinsky tends to overdramatize, and his physical movements seem so nervously unfocused that you wish someone would hand him a pacifier. Ingalls isn't given as much of a chance to demonstrate her talents. Her abrupt change of attitude towards her captor, from the moment she tries to escape to the next when she docilely hops into bed with the hero, is hardly believable. This is not so much Ingalls's fault as the play's, which has altogether too many unfulfilled moments...
Patty Hearst was not among them, and so might still be alive. But the five included the leaders of the S.L.A. believed to be her constant captor-companions, raising the fear that she might have been killed earlier as the dragnet was closing in on the S.L.A. The dead...
...tends to agree that "physical degradation is replaced by psychological degradation"−that all the "diagnosis" and "evaluation" are "the catch-22 of modern prison life." A "cure" is pronounced. Miss Mitford suspects, when a "poor/young/brown/ black captive appears to have capitulated to his middle-class /white /middleaged captor...