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There is a great deal of dancing in Drood, all used to good effect (mostly to liven up some otherwise boring dramatic scenes). Under Kaplan's guidance, most of the cast performs energetically if not expertly. Particular note should be made of the four chorus members (Len Levin, Neil Sondheimer, Christine Driscoll and Ariella Migdal) who seem to spend half the play bouncing on stage in various costumes to perform different styles of dance...
Dudley House Music Society. Presentspianist Beth Levin performing music by Beethoven,Debussy, Brahms, Chopin and Alan Campbell. LehmanHall, Dudley House, 8 p.m. $4 for students...
...several exact copies of the U.S. President are found dead and no one is certain whether a clone or the real McCoy sits in the Oval Office. In Nancy Freedman's 1973 book Joshua, Son of None, the clone is a real President, John F. Kennedy. And, Ira Levin's 1976 novel (later a movie), The Boys from Brazil, imagines neo-Nazis cloning a batch of Hitlers; luckily the conspirators' failure to duplicate precisely the real Hitler's upbringing leaves the ersatz Fuhrers imperfectly evil...
...like the highs and lows of a roller coaster, they are exhiliratingly enjoyable despite their random nature. The play's development is always one step ahead of the audience, and the race to keep up does get tiresome towards the latter half of the second act. Fortunately however, Levin, keen to an audience's limited capacity to watch and process a bullet-paced thriller, allows for extensive monologues in which characters, like members of a Greek chorus, meticulously recall events twist for twist...
Making subtle references to such theater big-wigs as Antonin Artaud and David Merrick throughout, Levin, like Altman, adds a certain element of inside humor to his work. Picking up on and, more importantly, understanding Levin's allusions allows audience members a most gratifying sense of satisfaction. This "I know something you don't know" component somehow compensates for the feeling that Levin otherwise seems to be out to trick...