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...BOTTOM LINE: All but upstaging Austin Pendleton and Julie Harris, a pair of young actors promise an exciting future...
There are two startling passages in another new off-Broadway play, the keenly observed if scattershot Sophistry, set on a college campus. One features Austin Pendleton, whose credits stretch back to Fiddler on the Roof and Oh, Dad, Poor Dad. The other belongs to Anthony Rapp, 21. When they meet as teacher and student in a sexual encounter that degenerates into a harassment charge, Rapp's blend of rocketing energy and terror turned bravado rules the stage...
...pleasures of watching old pros like Harris and Pendleton are considerable. So are the pleasures of encountering more serious drama than is common on Broadway. But nothing makes off-Broadway more exciting than the emergence of new talent, the sense of a career being born. That hope is fulfilled to overflowing by Fichtner and Rapp, who both combine exhilarating talent with terrifying insight into how destruction can serve as a mask for self-destruction...
...Rapp rampages through both, first as a bratty seducer who hides doubts about his sexuality by swiveling his hips, shaking a finger cockily in the professor's face, tearing off his own clothes and collapsing in puppyish self-pity, then as a mute but furious victim. His vengeance gives Pendleton a career moment too. Reduced to a job as Santa, he stands disheveled, muttering the words of one Christmas carol while hearing the tune of another. The moment is brief but perfect -- a lesson by established talent for the new generation...
Poor Californians. No sooner cashed out of Glendale and resettled in Sun Valley in new Pendleton shirts than they are generally eager to please, dig in, join the school board. But the natives often regard them as interlopers who force up property values, stretch emergency services and introduce alien notions. So many celebrities and other moneyed migrants have moved to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, for instance, that some resident working people can no longer afford to live there and have to commute from the small towns of Driggs and Victor, Idaho, across the treacherous Teton Pass...