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...Moonchildren, at the Charles Playhouse, is one of the best new plays being performed anywhere, certainly the most important work being done in the area. It's about the author's student days at Brandeis, but don't worry about it being one of those silly nostolgia pieces; the show is anything but silly. More on this one later. Performances tonight are at 7 and 10:30, Saturday at 6:30 and 10, Sunday at 7:30. The late show tonight only costs $3 for students--almost worth being a student...
...MOONCHILDREN, by Michael Weller. This play--about Weller and his roommates during his senior year at Brandeis--is funny, sad, worth seeing, and leaving for Broadway this week. 7:30, Saturday 6:30 and 10, Sunday 2:30 and 7:30, at the New Theater, 12 Holyoke Street...
...MOONCHILDREN, by Michael Weller, about the people he shared a house with during his last year at Brandeis (1965). Very funny, very strong, eminently enjoyable and worth seeing, and only two weeks before it leaves for Broadway, where an earlier production got unanimous rave reviews and closed after three nights. 7:30. Saturday 6:30 and 10, Sunday 2:30 and 7:30, at the New Theater, 12 Holyoke Street...
...students in Moonchildren don't feel emancipated, they feel irrelevant, and in the last act, Weller shows why: After graduation they probably won't even see each other again. Mike, whose tutor says he is a genius in physics, will inherit his father's lumber business. As his girlfriend points out, even if he were to become a professor of physics, in 20 years he would only discover that he was being funded by the CIA. Mike's girlfriend is all set to marry him and be a housewife. "You've changed, you really have changed," Kathy tells her bitterly...
Until that day comes, we can be glad of the grace and wit with which Moonchildren's students enjoy their irrelevance. It would be unwise to assume, I might add, that the cat who doesn't live in the house is not going to turn...