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...answering this question, the play takes off in all sorts of comic directions. There are phone calls to the playwright himself incorporating a tape recorded voice that sounds pretty much like Woody Allen, and an appearance by Blanche DuBois, followed by Groucho Marx and a messenger from Western Union. All these arbitrary appearances serve to make the play a bizarre and entertaining satire of drama in general...
...Force Kiki Vandeweghe to wear a pair of Groucho Marx glasses: One of two things will happen. Either Vandeweghe will think he's been transmogrified into Kurt Rambis and start to grab rebounds like he hasn't done in decades. Or the disguise will distract the Celtics...
...revitalize their economies after 40 years of Communist rule, schools will have to vie with industry and agriculture for scarce resources. But for the moment at least, teachers and pupils seem thrilled by their new freedom to think, speak and seek the truth now that the ghosts of Marx and Lenin have been expelled from the classroom...
...tony cast members are made to play against their strengths. Kline buckles under the burden of an Italian accent not heard since the passing of Chico Marx. Ullman tamps down her TV exuberance and meekly disappears into the black hole of her role. Joan Plowright, a grande dame of English theater, plays a Yugoslav granny, and loses. William Hurt, as a dim doper hired to kill Joey, works beyond his range and beneath his gifts. The same may be said of Kasdan. The director of Body Heat and The Big Chill now wastes his time on the movie equivalent...
EDUCATION: Life without Marx and Lenin...