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...Cambridge has is poetic. The round tables covered with red and white checkered tablecloths, the waiter garbed in black uniform and long white apron, and the complimentary chilled bottle of wine are all part of the setting of Adams House's All Gaul, the world premiere adaptations of three one-act French farces...
Immediately after the end of the first one-act play, the second one. "Capital Crime, Parisian Punishment," begins after a brief set change. Written by George Feydeau, the play consists of condemned prisoner's monologue. Played by Peter L. Stein, the prisoner agonizes over his hopeless fate as he relates the story of his imprisonment and subsequent sentence of death. Through the prisoner's dimwitted innocence and straightforward telling of the absurd facts of this supposed crime, the play mocks the injustices of the French judicial system in the late 1890s. Stein's performance is startling as he maintains...
...still going strong 160 performances later. Around the same time, Christopher Durang's Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You exploded off-Broadway. Written with the vindictive passion of a Jacobean tragedy and performed at a tempo the Marx brothers might have found taxing, Durang's one-act delight appeared on a sheaf of Ten Best lists. It has since moved to a larger Manhattan showcase, where it continues to win adherents...
HERE IS something hideously abortive about the three one-act plays currently showing at the American Premiere Stage. Never has promise been so firmly repulsed, or talent so finally diverted from a stage. Bad things have emphatically hit the floorboards in threes, in this third and thankfully final program of APS's debut season...
...one-act play set in a union hall, "Lefty" dramatizes the taxicab strike that plagued New York in the spring of 1934. Lefty is the union leader, for whom the drivers are waiting before they take a vote on whether to strike. In a series of flashbacks, several of the men detail their reasons for voting to strike. One of the heavy-handed scenes has a young wife telling her cabbie husband that she will accept the advances of an old admirer unless he starts bringing home more money. The flashbacks continue until it is announced that Lefty has been...