Word: lanford
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Full of murder, lust, adultery, suicide, and archaeologists, Lanford Wilson's "The Mound Builders" is bound to be shocking and entertaining. But despite the promise the play seems to hold, the production in the Loeb Ex last weekend took a while to realize its full potential. But when it did, it was a rousing, if not disturbing, success...
...seems to be the season for savvy playwrights to slip. Neil Simon's musical adaptation of his The Goodbye Girl left out the good parts, David Hwang's Face Value closed in preview, and now Lanford Wilson (Talley's Folly, Burn This) has opened REDWOOD CURTAIN, a would-be poetic musing on ecology, Vietnam, capitalism and multicultural heritage. If you think something is deeply sick in the national soul, then the play, for all its philosophical incoherence and melodrama (about a Vietnamese immigrant seeking her ex-G.I. father), may speak to you. If you live in the world most...