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Really Big. Seniors Nick Lemann and Peter Kaplan will read their one-act play, a comedy about the rise and cooptation of two 1930s Hollywood screenwriters, in the Leverett Old Library Theater, Sunday night at 8. It's free, and lasts about 45 minutes. That's it for Harvard shows, but it you're feeling adventurous and want to go beyond the confines of the campus...
Inserts is formally a one-act play. But unlike most works of that genre Inserts is open-ended, leaving a lot of questions unanswered and intimations unexplained. The demise of The Boy Wonder is the major mystery of the film; no explanation is ever given for his peculiarly pathetic state of affairs. Equally musterious is Harlene (Veronica Cartwright), a junkie porno queen who ODs during The Boy Wonder's filming session and who Byrum suggests was once a star in "real films...
...United Artists press conference in Chicago, Dreyfuss called Inserts the best one-act play that he has ever read, considering it better than Albee's Zoo Story. While this is gross exagerration, Inserts is in fact one of the better film dramas to come around in a long time, an example of dramatic power and momentum glossing over flaws. But despite the advertising claims, Inserts shows degeneracy as it is--undignified...
Tonight at 8:30. Three one-act plays by Noel Coward--Red Peppers, Fumed Oak and Ways and Means? performed by the MIT Community Players in Kresge Little Theatre, December...
...because aside from the black woman and Fran (Valerie Kiuelson), an alcoholic singer on her way to an appointment with the Monongahela River, the play doesn't do too well. The poet (John Sviolka) and the old lady (Ellen Brenner) seem worried about problem--sex and death--that the one-act play just can't fully explore. The bus driver (Leo Pierre Roy) is indistinguishable from his old crate; he's just a vehicle for the play, and his last line sums it all up neatly: "Watch your step as you're going DOWN...