Word: maddens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lives is that they contain no resolution, no escapes other than the temporary ones offered by a nightly dose of beer drinking and western fantasy. That mechanical animal is a peculiarly apt metaphor for their way of life: it endlessly repeats itself until, like all mechanized fantasies, it must madden anyone caught in its thrall. Nor can the contraption be broken - any more than most people can be broken of the habits, routines and saving dreams of their cramped lives...
TERRY IS BY NO MEANS easy to stage, and the Rep's production goes far to surmount the difficulties of this complex and nuance-ridden play. Director John Madden seems, at times, apprehensive of his audience, unsure of how far to push, particularly in Terry Rex. He is on firmer turf in Terry Won't Talk, where the players' stylized panache smoothly implies a production of a production--actors playing actors. Madden's effect is boosted here by the equally stylized sets, always smaller than the stage, parading their artificiality, masterfully created by Andrew Jackness. The Terry of Terry...