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Scenarist Weller is best known for Moonchildren, his fine, reflective play about lost renegades of the '60s. He has written Hair as a witty cross between A Midsummer Night's Dream and the 1949 MGM musical On the Town. The story begins as Claude (John Savage, of The Deer Hunter), an Oklahoma farm boy, arrives in Manhattan for a final day of liberty before induction into the Army. Like the World War II sailors of On the Town, Claude plans to take in the tourist sights, but he is quickly seduced by more hedonistic pleasures. Falling in with...
...affinity with childhood - irrepressible, irresponsible, zany, sulky -brings out the best and the worst in Play wright Weller. His previous drama, Moonchildren, was a balloon flight through the gravityless '60s. In Loose Ends, now at Washington, D.C.'s Arena Stage, the characters are grounded in the '70s and undergo growing pains without discernibly growing...
...Moonchildren. Michael Weller's play about eight students sharing an apartment in the 60's is of course dated--peace marches and draft-dodging seem historical curiosities, almost archaicisms, by now. The play's chief impact, however, was never political; it derived instead from the emotional interaction between its characters, whose apparent friendship yields eventually to a sense of isolation and despair. Unfortunately, the Dunster House Drama Society's production of Moonchildren never fully creates the illusion of an initial community of friends, so the dissolution of that community is less heart-rending than it should be. Nevertheless, this production...
...characters of Moonchildren are like a lot of people here--they offer no illuminating truths about the nature of existence. But they can be very, very funny, and sometimes that's enough...
...Moonchildren. The Dunster House Drama Society's production of Michael Weller's play about the emotional and political concerns of eight students sharing an apartment in the sixties. See Ruth Liebmann's review on page 2 of today's Crimson. In the Dunster House Dining Hall, November...