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...reminiscent of the action in School for Scandal than of the printouts of a computer randomly permutating a basic word pattern. In PlayBeckett gives us the tried but true triangle of husband, wife and mistress and hints of insanity, murder and rape. But the characters are dead in this chamber piece; we see only their heads atop individual funeral urns. The theme of emptiness runs through both of these plays, which seem to be devoid of images but which, like the publicity poster, are enormously suggestive. Nancy Krieger has skillfully realized the implicit imagery of Beckett's plays...
Krieger interprets Play, the chamber piece, like music, setting the three characters to a metronome, and accompanying them with music. Lisa Claudy, Richard Blumenfeld, and Kate Heller speak their lines of complex rhythmic patterns with technical precision. In private existential hells, they are incapable of extinguishing their consciousnesses. "How the mind works," says the wife. "Silence and darkness were all I craved. Well, I get a certain amount of both. They being...
...Haydn Society of Boston--Thomas Dunn conducts the Society's orchestra and chorus in Bruckner's Mass in E Minor for chorus and winds. Also included are Haydn's "Gioco Filharmonico," in which the audience constructs a minuet by rolling dice, and Pres du Ball, a work for chamber ensemble and female dancer by Henri Sauget. Tickets are $8.50, $6.00, $3.00. Info 536-2412. 25 Huntington Ave., Boston...
Collage Contemporary Music Ensemble--A chamber group comprised principally of Boston Symphony Orchestra musicians presents the Boston premiere of four works: Mazwell-Davies' "Miss Donnithorne's Maggot," conducted by Philip Kelsey; Vincent Luti's "Represa Anticae Moderna," and Betsy Jolas' "Episode" and "Fusain." Also programmed is Carter's Sonata for Cello and Piano. Tickets at $4.00, $2.00 with student I.D. Info 661-3958. Agassiz Theatre, Radcliffe Yard...
During a freewheeling session with the NATO Council in Brussels, he reminded a representative of Norway that "as a Senator from Minnesota, I probably have more Norwegian constituents than you." The chamber erupted in laughter. In a smoke-filled room full of Common Market leaders, he apologized for his love of Cuban cigars, which are banned in the U.S., and promised to do penance by "donating a few to my favorite charity." During a visit to 10 Downing Street, Mondale helped strengthen the Atlantic alliance by joining British Prime Minister James Callaghan and other British officials in a spontaneous rendition...