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...could be called minimalist or slipshod, depending on your distance from theater lingo. There's a blue curtain backdrop that came Federal Express through the local time warp from an elementary school somewhere in your past; there's a yellow bench with paint drippings down the side; and there's the now-classic red doghouse spoiled by the addition of green pine trees on the side...
...very long ago, Broadway was thickly settled with relentlessly cheerful domestic comedies. Almost invariably these plays were set in some showcase living room. As soon as the curtain went up, audiences applauded the unassertive furniture, as if in affirmation of their own good taste. That kind of play is all but dead, killed by high ticket prices that prompt theatergoers to demand something special, and by the genre's own dishonesty. When a TV sitcom resolves an impossible problem in half an hour, viewers know that more trouble will crop up next week. In the theatrical equivalent, pain is glibly...
...stage we finally complete the final cues. It's almost three o'clock in the morning as the cast wearily assembles for one last round of notes. We discuss the rehearsals tomorrow and the day after, juggling availability and commitments. It will be a long week before the curtain goes...
...giving away much to reveal this gothic moment as the curtain line of So Long on Lonely Street, a zesty, poignant and fiercely funny comedy. Far more shocking revelations have already emerged along the way, on matters ranging from race to motherhood to incest. Playwright Sandra Deer has created a clan of faded gentry who mingle the greed of the family in Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes with the lubricious dementia of Beth Henley's Crimes of the Heart. Yet Deer has a kinder heart toward her characters than either author. The result, while likely to strike some playgoers...
...contra-versy raging in the U.S. today is not--as Pat Buchanan would have us believe--one that pits those willing to tolerate a totalitarian regime against those who will not. We tolerate them all the time and will continue to do so long after the curtain is drawn one way or another on the present Nicaraguan imbroglio...