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THIS PLAY DOES get very thin. Stoppard's script is a lot like a Historical Studies A course: very didactic and superficial at the same time. And the play seems longer than the two-and-a-half hours of its duration. For persons who don't know much about any...

Author: By Thomas M. Doyle, | Title: Half Truths | 3/14/1986 | See Source »

This savagely funny scene, as momentarily plausible onstage as it is < preposterous in the retelling, is the central event of Edward Bond's Restoration, a stunning leftist anthem masquerading as a literary curiosity. The play marries the style of, say, Congreve or Farquhar with that of Bertolt Brecht: it blends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Leftist Anthem Restoration | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

Such is the opening to Jennifer Bartlett's mid-career retrospective--the rotunda installation is her most recent work, Sea Wall, 1985--and it sets the tone of expectation very well. The large, the environmental and the obscurely systematized are here conflated with the small, the decorative and the pleasurable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fluent, Electric, Charming | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

Kicking off the ART's seventh year in Cambridge, Brustein's Changeling demonstrates a not too didactic lesson: that we can breathe fresh life into old lines, and in so doing throw new light on theatrical traditions. Although this concept sounds obvious, putting on a play that was first produced...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: More of The Same Thing With ART's 'Changeling' | 12/5/1985 | See Source »

Besson inflicts his audience, whom he clearly despises, with didactic-as-all-get-out musical sojourns. In one we're told that we watch too much TV. Neat-o. In another we learn, to the sound of gunfire, that people kill people. Brilliant. Other scenes are less direct. At a...

Author: By Jonathan S. Steuer, | Title: Sub-Intelligent | 11/23/1985 | See Source »

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