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Tango. By Slawomir Mrozek (Heavy on the slavics, this week) at the Loeb Ex, April 23-25, with an additional show Saturday at 3:30 p.m. Tickets free the day before...
TANGO, a comedy by Slawomir Mrozek. Yes. Slawomir Mrozek. 8 p.m. at the Emerson Theater, Berkeley and Beacon Streets in Boston...
...plays in the collection. They both hammer in their central points much too strongly, lacking the humorous touch of Striptease. Ironically, this humor is what enables us to take Striptease seriously; we identify with Mr. I and Mr. II partly because they are funny. In the two longer plays, Mrozek becomes ponderously moralistic, and as a result we distance ourselves from his rigidly tragic characters...
...then as a bald-headed soldier. The Ghost reproaches Daddy for ceasing to love him, and then attempts to seduce Daddy's son. (Daddy, meanwhile, is running off with his daughter-in-law, She. The purpose of this subplot is never made quite clear.) With uncharacteristic heavy-handedness, Mrozek ends the play by blatantly stating his main point in the Ghost's last lines: "Time for me to go. But I'll be back. Tomorrow night. Or the next. I'll drop in from time to time...Fathers don't like it when I come." We have learned to expect...
...mean to be hard on Mrozek. Most of my criticisms deal with problems that are bothersome in print, and I suspect that they may disappear or at least diminish on stage. If I were to point out a single damning fault, it would be that the situations are not open-ended enough. Once we learn the circumstances, we know everything. There is character revelation, but no character development. Curiously enough, this means that the endings themselves are too open--that is, the plays tend to trail off rather than ending definitively. When Mrozek does try to create a real ending...