Word: garden
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Born more or less 50 years ago (he won't tell exactly when) in Garden City, N.Y., of Greek immigrant parents, Savalas knows from experience those mean streets he now uses for locations (some of the show is also shot in Los Angeles). He graduated from a noisy family whose fortunes fluctuated from wealth in the tobacco business to bankruptcy in the Depression and back to affluence in the bakery business. He earned a degree from Columbia University in psychology, an experience that permanently turned him off the subject...
...Garden of Finzi-Continis...
...GARDEN...
Bernard Shaw's proverbial preface to the original says the play (or this section of it) is about Darwinism and the expectations of man in history. Yet the drama itself doesn't compress this: it's downright expansive--not an easy effect when your setting is the Garden of Eden and you want to speak simply but not so simply that everything seems symbolic. Director Rob Hershman works with the expansiveness, and when he gets such fine performances out of Richard Bangs and Adam and Catherine Dean as Eve, what emerges is something that shovels ideas less than it rolls...
...this week, either, just the first part, which is about the Garden of Eden and includes a lot of wit, occasional profundity and something about some men seeing things that never were and saying why not--that line often used to get attributed to Robert F. Kennedy '48. Opens tonight at 7:30 at the Loeb Ex; tickets are free, as usual...