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SWALLOWED. Yes, there really are four original one-act plays about people being swallowed in Cambridge, and as a matter of fact, they're all opening tonight. 8 p.m. at Theater two, 196 Broadway, near Kendall Squre. There's a party with wine and cheese and live music afterwards, and I guess everyone is invited...
SWALLOWED. For a month now I've been waiting to list this one. Four original one-act plays about people being swallowed. And if you belive they, you'll swallow anything. Prevews, for an opening next week, 8 p.m. at Theater Two, 196 Broadway near Kendall Square...
...surprised not to find A Country Doctor anticlimactic. It's a one-act adaptation of a Kafka story by Hans Werner Henze, consisting entirely of a dramatic monologue by the title character. Philip Kelsey turns in a remarkable performance, in which every word is distinct and every word radiates a baffled, innocent hopelessness that progresses into insanity. The refusal of the people around him to seize responsibility for their own lives without benefit of elergy, doctors, or other agents of the state combined with his own inabilities, makes his life increasingly unbearable: "What do they want from doctors," he asks...
...Eugene O'Neill, the early period was his one-act sea plays. O'Neill's almost mystic affinity for the sea was probably the only untormented love that his lonely, brooding, haunted spirit ever knew. O'Neill's late period, in which he exorcised the ghosts of the past and reached commanding stature as a dramatist, is pre-eminently represented by The Iceman Cometh (his vision at the approach of death) and Long Day's Journey into Night (the reconciliation with his family which he could not achieve while his family lived...
...ONE-ACT PLAYS are always difficult to do in series. The problem results from their self-contained nature; they could work individually, but together as a production they often have very little coherence. The Caravan Theatre's Hands Off! is a pleasant exception to this sort of problem; they have put together two Becketts and one Mrozek that together make a theatrical and intellectual whole...