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...Theater Company has clearly expended a great deal of energy on this production. Dustin Hoffman as Clov, Frank Cassidy as Hamm, and Jerry Gershman and Naomi Thornton as Nagg and Nell all act with discipline and tact in a play that tempts them to noise and ranting. The set, by Alexander Pertzoff, is properly absurd. And David Wheeler's direction perfectly exploits the strength of this kind of theater. Experiencing Endgame is in a way like walking into the monastery chapel a few blocks down from Eliot House: we are thrown into another world and made to forget...
...NAOMI J. WALDMAN Whitman, Mass...
John Peakes as the mayor of Sandaraque has one excellent scene, the rest of his performace is solid but unimaginative. Naomi Pearlman as the mayor's wife, Linda Avitable as his aunt, and Jamie Frucht as the aunt's servant Clothilde are more than adequate...
...comic named Vaughn Meader, who does a frequently riotous impersonation of Jack Kennedy. Meader's intonation, rhythm and broad Bostonian accent are good enough to fool any Jacqueline. The series of skits that comprise the record also include a wonderfully wispy, whispery impersonation of Jackie herself, played by Naomi Brossart. Most of it is not wit but gags, and the gags are not all top-drawer, though they are greeted as such by one of those irritating studio audiences ready to laugh loudly on cue. It's the Kennedy sound that saves...
Ruth is persuaded to abandon Chemosh-worship by Mahlon, a gentle young Jew from Bethlehem. He is thrown into prison and then mortally wounded while escaping. Ruth marries him as he dies. Damned as an apostate and pursued by Moabite soldiers, she flees with his mother, Naomi (Peggy Wood), to Bethlehem, and there finds herself in danger of being stoned for idolatry. At last tolerance prevails, and eventually she marries a good and godly man named Boaz (Stuart Whitman...