Word: exitement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Warsaw radio called it "an agreement without precedent in the world" -an exaggeration, of course, but almost a forgivable one. What the radio referred to was an agreement this month between Poland and East Germany allowing their citizens to visit each other's countries without the tedious exit formalities, border checks and stringent currency controls (90? a day for Polish tourists) that had made travel between Communist countries since World War II almost as difficult as getting to the West...
...difficulty comes from the script, by Harry and R.M. Fink, which fails to disguise its Hollywood origins. More legend than plot, the story fumbles when it wanders away from its central combat. The cops speak a special kind of cinematic tough talk. Exit lines sound like clever phrases the messieurs Fink have spent weeks sweating out. The speech of a policeman's wife takes a few perfunctory swipes at social commentary, but the film's heart is elsewhere, splashing in the gore...
...should be a determiner of life rather than a victim," says the Hub Theatre Company. In Sartre's No Exit, the characters have already gone beyond the point where they can make such a choice; they are in a place where there is no rest, no dreaming, no death; they are in hell...
...Exit is a masterful work. Its greatest value lies in how the philosophical and the dramatic fit together; Sartre can sell his own peculiar brand of existentialism and still have a tightly written dramatic statement. The Hub Theatre is aware of the danger of philosophic overkill; they fortunately let Sartre's philosophy stand unaided. But No Exit as drama is a strong play, demanding strong acting and strong direction. With one exception, the Hub fails to provide this strength...
...players keep breaking character to bicker with each other. In an explosion of petty grievances they disband, only to regroup for a second act. This time the company attempts Man's rites of passage, and as the actors become engrossed in their story, they mellow into cooperation and exit smiling...