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Last spring he held the six-seat in Harvard's first freshman heavyweight boat, the eight that won its event at the Royal Henley Regatta in London in July the only American winners...
...races today--even though it will be as part of the same Harvard eight that rowed at Henley--it won't be part of preparation for another year of rowing for the Crimson. Instead, he's taking a year off from school, shooting for a berth on the Canadian Olympic team that will row in Los Angeles...
...good deal of the play's success hinges upon Henley's ability to subtly intertwine comedy with serious and problematical issues. Although the play revolves to a great extent around a present and history of tragic events--suicide, sterility, lost dreams--no one could confuse Crimes of the Heart with 'Night, Mother or Shadow Box. The play is first and foremost a comedy and with rare exceptions, even the pain and introspection come across with a humorous edge...
...help laughing at Babe's thwarted attempts to hang herself with knitting yarn, or at the speculation over Lenny's secret rendezvous with a Tennessee gentleman. Yet simultaneously, both scenes arouse pity--a comic pathos that only a perceptive and talented playwright like Henley could achieve...
...part, Henley is to blame for slipping in cumbersome cliches like "People need to communicate with one another. It's a human need." More culpable, though, is director Pentecost, who gets carried away with unbelievable sob scenes as Lenny and Babe try to convince us that they are scarred by their past...