Word: isolationism
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Someone Who'll Watch Over Me. Through April 9. New Repertory Theatre, 54 Lincoln St., Newton Highlands. 332-1646. The Boston premiere of the 1992-93 winner of the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for "Best Foreign Play," relates the story of a trio of hostages awaiting their fate...
Mark Cooper, research director of the Consumer Federation of America, argues that there are no panaceas for national concerns about the gap between the information haves and have-nots. Nor, he believes, will eventual computer literacy and Net access do much to end the blight of poverty, illegitimacy, rural isolation...
In Sandcastles the children are divided into small groups by age, and each group is run by a therapist and a teacher. Older children may write poems, do role-playing or create their own talk shows, while the younger kids draw pictures of their families and talk about them, or...
After an uncharacteristic side trip into social drama with 1992's Oleanna, Mamet is back in territory he walks confidently. His new work is an elliptical, fragmented 75-minute conversation among three characters who use words, words, words to disguise (and maybe salve) their spiritual isolation. The boy's father...
Frances Peverell, a figure of "gentle, old-fashioned formality," lives a flight of stairs away from the equally reserved Gabriel Dauntsey. They see "less of each other than if they had lived miles apart." Dalgleish recognizes Jean-Philippe Etienne, Gerard's father, as the "true recluse" he himself sometimes shows...