Word: nucleo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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produced by Theatre In Process at Nucleo Eclettico...
...heightened awareness of nuclear dangers, throughout the public and in the arts as well, to attempt to make any kind of artistic statement about nuclear war. Especially in Boston, where peace organizations have been fixtures for years, and in the context of such nuclear madness dramas as the Nucleo Eclettico's The Physicists and TheaterWorks own Murder Now? it is a formidable task for any theatrical organization to attempt to add anything new to the debate, too easy to fall into the trap of familiar cliche, or to sensationalize what is by very nature sensational material...
SAVAGE/LOVE at the Nucleo Eclettico theater is modern love poetry set to music, set to an actor and actress, set to life. The playwrights, Sam Shepard and Joseph Chaikin, combine drama and poetry to explore all the problems and possibilities of communication between a MAN (Kelvin Kerage) and a WOMAN (Maryann Bergonzi). Itself an experiment in communication, this stylistic compromise of genres achieves a rare and successful blend of sensitivity and irony...
...most inaccessible thing about the show is its location, for the Nucleo Eclettico theater is well hidden beneath the European Restaurant near the Haymarket T station. The position gives the play a North End flavor. Bergonzi, especially, injects occasional Italian words into the dialogue...
...polish to Savage/Love, providing hummable original scores for the little bit of singing and making the band a sort of character by its intrusions among the lines and occasional interaction with WOMAN. Savage/Love is a poetic dialogue about the nuts and bolts of human relationships; the performance at the Nucleo Eclettico theater captures all its beautiful bitter/sweetness...