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This nightmare situation, not exactly ripped from the headlines but a plausible extension of them, befalls a young woman at the outset of Keely and Du, perhaps the most important and surely the most harrowing American play produced outside New York City this year. It debuted briefly at Actors Theatre of Louisville's annual new play festival in March, and the same production opened a five-week run last week at Connecticut's Hartford Stage Company. Other stagings have been seen at the Dublin Festival and, currently, in Washington, and one is planned at Houston's Alley Theatre...
...play's inner life is the growing bond between the captive, Keely, and her grandmotherly keeper, Du. Part of the closeness is their natural sympathy as women beleaguered by men. Part is a shared, stereotypically feminine impulse to focus on an individual situation more than an abstract principle. Part, too, is the "Stockholm syndrome" of intimacy between hostage and hostage taker as a way of enduring forced togetherness. The effect is especially strong in this situation because, unlike most hostages, the young woman has no fear of being murdered -- her captors are desperate to keep her alive, if only...
...Actors Theatre of Louisville, needs polishing. Most scenes are cinematically brief, but the scene changes are long and noisy. Both acts end with poignant, diminuendo remarks that plainly do not strike audiences as a climax, so applause, although sustained, is painfully slow in coming. While Anne Pitoniak's Du is a tonic blend of folksy approachability and rigid religion, Julie Boyd's Keely seems far better educated and statelier than the beer-loving bar veteran and blue-collar knockabout sketched in the text...
...literary adviser to his theater. Says Jory, who refuses to reveal anything: "She honestly feels, for whatever reason, that she couldn't write plays if people knew who she was and what she was." If remaining secret is the price for plays of the caliber of Keely and Du, let her stay hidden forever...
Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center.$5 for students. "Beauty and the Beast" at5:30 p.m. "Scenario du film passion" at7:30 p.m. A poetic video of study of the cinematicand creative process by deconstructing the storyof Jean-luc Godard's 1982 film."France/tour/detour/deux/enfants: Verite"at 9:30 p.m. Constructed around interviews with aFrench schoolgirl and schoolboy on questions bothphilosophical and quotidian.23 November Tuesday