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...Caravan Theater, now in its tenth season in Cambridge, has handled this difficult task in the past with more dexterity than most other local groups. In its best work over the past three years--How To Make A Womanand Suppose I Fall--it has probed the complex interface between the sexes, a subject not likely to be soon exhausted. In both productions, the company put before us a situation decked out in gay attire, and then slowly stripped it down to its unaccommodated truth, while the audience watched with painful recognition. The actors brought something to life on their stage...
...with this fine history behind them, it is a joyless task to report that Focus On Me, Caravan's new production that opened last week, just doesn't work. The play was written by the company's director, Bobbi Ausubel, under a grant given by the Radcliffe Institute. It is about (using the word advisedly) a woman filmmaker, Toni, trying to create a film prototype of a strong woman. She parades before us a succession of archetype images (amazon and mother), discarding each in turn as insufficient. He finally settles on one that is supposed to be a synthesis...
When he set out with his brother John and a mule donated by the Waseca Chamber of Commerce, some of the townspeople dismissed the caravan as "two asses and a mule." Kunst's wife recalled: "I kept expecting him to call from La Crosse and say 'Come over and pick us up.' " The first night the Kunsts made it 14 miles to Owatonna, then collapsed with sore feet in a city park. But gradually they toughened up and, equally important, became adept at hustling meals and lodging; they were presented with everything from cough drops...
Persephone's Return takes the "marriage is hell" cliche quite literally indeed. But it's an interesting, powerful translation of archaic myth into contemporary issues. Presented by the Rhode Island Feminist Theater at the Caravan Theater, 1555 Mass...
State of the Union, a topical satire, begins a week of free performances at Kevin's Wharf Restaurant in Boston on Monday, prior to a fall tour through New England. The show is done to music, and the players are supposed to be exceptionally good. Since the Caravan Theater closed down for the summer there's not much around in the way of political revues, so if you go in for that sort of stuff you may want to take a look into this. The price is right and lord knows there's enough for the troupe to satirize. Monday...