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Politics in Cambodia can be a lethal business. In recent months, unknown assailants have murdered nearly a dozen people in what appear to be political vendettas. Last week, popular singer Touch Srey Nich, 24, was leaving a flower shop in Phnom Penh when four gunmen on motorbikes?two in military uniform?opened fire, killing Touch's 62-year-old mother and leaving the singer with multiple gunshot wounds to the face. (She is now in critical condition in a Bangkok hospital.) Touch is known by many as the "voice of Funcinpec"?the royalist opposition party?and her rendition of Funcinpec...
Baseball vs. Nich...
Baseball vs. Nich...
...country. "I thought this would be the thing that brought my work back to America," says Wilson, with some bitterness. The Knee Plays will tour Europe next fall, and plans are afoot for performances of various other sections in the south of France and in Mu nich in 1985. The best prospects for the world's first complete production, though, seem to be at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, in October 1985. American audiences, who are accustomed to timid, representational productions of safe repertoire in their theaters and opera houses, could use a taste of the freewheeling iconography that...
...right back," the actual show also breaks for a commercial. But the spice of the device is soon overwhelmed by Mama's overcooked material. The failure is not the fault of Lila Kaye, late of the Royal Shakespeare Company (she was Mrs. Squeers and Mrs. Crummies in Nich olas Nickleby). Kaye plays Mama with manic élan, but she is giving flesh - kilos of it - to an ethnic stereotype that should have gone out with the organ grinder and his monkey...