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...first of the semester's three grant meetings, which was held last Friday, RUS distributed $740. The largest grant, $300, went to the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Association, which will co-sponsor two one-act plays pertaining to women's issues...
...devoted solely to modern classics. It performs "Shaw and his contemporaries," defined as plays written between 1856, the year of Shaw's birth, and 1950, when he died. Noel Coward has been produced 11 times, becoming a secondary focus, and Granville Barker is scheduled for the same treatment. The one-act Rococo will appear next season in a lunchtime slot on the schedule, traditionally reserved for short Shaw (such as this season's tiresome young-Napoleon foofaraw, The Man of Destiny). A full-length work, Waste or His Majesty, will appear the season after. The Shaw Festival's resurrection began...
...small play with big ambitions. In its Boston premiere, the William Finn musical is the first of the "Marvin" trilogy that Finn and James Lapine went on to complete, and while Falsettos, the Tony Award-winning combination of the latter two plays, has received much acclaim, the first one-act has merits...
Cabranes-Grant's direction also improves in Playing with Fire. There is more movement--and more of the movement makes sense--in the second one-act. One pleasantly irreverent decision is to have the characters clap following each other's more intense conversations...
...conversation between a somewhat disturbed thirty-year old woman Lulu (Jessie Cohen) and a middle-class younger Black man Clay (Michael McNeal) in a New York City subway car. Lulu's accusation of "Uncle Tom" provokes Clay to an angry and bitter tirade which forms the climax of the one-act play. The climax is, however, not followed by an expected resolution: Lulu stabs Clay to death...