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WILD OATS by Jacob Epstein Little, Brown; 267 pages...
Works of Bach, Mozart, Brahms and Bruch-- David Bach, cello; Louise Epstein, piano; Cabot Living Rm., South House...
...efforts of the previous year. The Best American Short Stories 1978 is the first edition in 37 years not edited by Martha Foley, who died in 1977. The final selections were made by Solotaroff. It is an outstanding collection with at least two stories that continue to reverberate: Leslie Epstein's Skaters on Wood, a startling tale about Polish Jews staging Macbeth before being rounded up by the Nazis; and Gilbert Sorrentino's Decades, a piece of superbly controlled drollery about a blue-collar New Yorker on the fringes of literary culture...
...lighting and the music immeasurably enhance the performance's emotional atmosphere, but the production escapes detachment and coldness chiefly because of uniformly excellent acting. Every actor crafts and sustains a character; even the bit parts are people with distinct--if annoying--personalities. Heitzi Epstein (Olga), Jenny Cornuelle (Masha) and Anne Clark (Irina) turn in carefully sustained and sensitive performances as the three sisters whose emotional foibles and frustrations are the play's heart. Clark as the youngest sister deftly moves from lighthearted young girl to pensive despairing woman. In one scene she darts across the stage, childishly reveling...
...Epstein portrays the maternal spinster sister Olga with convincing intensity, though she occasionally relies too much on grimaces to convey Olga's pain...