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...Lanford Wilson...
...FAIR to criticize an amateur production for being amateurish? It wasn't a good sign that I began to ponder this question but a few minutes into the Leverett House Arts Society's production of Lanford Wilson's Fifth of July. At least I had a long time--the rest of the play--to come up with an answer...
Such is the reasonable, if somewhat familiar, message in Lanford Wilson's latest play Angels Fall, a drama that attempts to show that moral choices aren't always clear cut. And while Wilson effectively leads his audience into the thickets of moral ambiguity, he is less successful at leading it out again; In attempting to make too many statements, Wilson winds up clubbing his audience over the head with what soon becomes unwelcome wisdom...
BALM IN GILEAD by Lanford Wilson...
Energy−atomic, unharnessed, virulent−abounds in Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater Company revival of Balm in Gilead, the Lanford Wilson dope opera that was first produced in 1965. The set may depict a grungy, all-night coffee shop on Manhattan's Upper West Side, but it soon takes on the sulfurous glow of the lower depths: a rush-hour subway car, say, some time during World War III. Junkies, hookers, drag queens, derelicts, ganefs and hit men rub up against Joe (Danton Stone) and Darlene (Laurie Metcalf), a couple too amiable or dense to survive the Nighttown...