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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...frayed nerves and fear that preyed on the Viet Nam infantryman and to understand the casual brutality that often emerged. Willem Dafoe, who plays Sergeant Elias, the platoon's conscience, recalls that "we certainly did get some taste of exhaustion, frustration and confusion." Tom Berenger, who plays the soul-dead Sergeant Barnes, agrees. "We didn't even have to act. We were there...
...over the group's leader, Sergeant Barnes (Tom Berenger), has seen to the slaughtering of villagers before the entire place is torched. During a third battle, Barnes tracks down a woods-wise sergeant, Elias (Willem Dafoe), who had interrupted Barnes' massacre, shoots him and leaves him for dead. On the final patrol Chris flips into heroism or psychosis, wipes out a nest of North Vietnamese and confronts the demon he has almost become. End with a murder -- the last of too bloody many...
Despite the limitations of this particular production, it is a pleasure to break free of the Brustein-dominated Cambridge theater scene and see how the other half emotes. Realism in drama and an emphasis on the text is not dead, as the Huntington continually proves. Awake and Sing is a play about finding hope in a world crushed under the weight of materialism and selfishness. Whether or not the play makes its case, the fact that it is being done in Boston--and done so faithfully, too--is no small cause for rejoicing...
Finishing our run at Sugarbush North we headed to the base lodge's bar where a group of college students was awaiting the snow volleyball award ceremonies. To the strains of Pink Floyd, the Grateful Dead and other blasts from the past, the fairly mellow students were sipping $1.50 beers and preparing for the parties that evening...
...West, it is creating other social ills. AIDS transmitted by addicts sharing contaminated needles has begun to surface in these countries. Asked if he is concerned about that disease, Witold, the Polish heroin addict, simply shrugs. "By the time it reaches us," he says, "I will probably already be dead from kompot...