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...Lover, the first play of the evening and perhaps the most famous one-act piece by British playwright Harold Pinter, love is little more than an elaborate role-playing game. As a happily average British middle class couple, Barlow Adamson and Marie Larkin move carefully around their disgustingly perfect home (constructed with aggravating blandness--lemon yellow sofa draping and all--by stage designer Jeff Gardiner) pouring drinks for one another and speaking in formal semi-monotones. They love each other, or so they claim, but their marriage is sexless. It is only when they meet in secret during...
...last play of the evening, Anton Chekov's The Marriage Proposal, stands in sharp contrast to the Pinter and Williams works. The physical comedy of Chekov's piece seems almost inconsiderate after the grueling emotional turmoil of Williams' piece. Director Aidan Parkinson takes a burlesque approach to Chekov's story of a marriage proposal interrupted by disputes over trivial family rivalries. Dorothy Brodesser returns in drag as the scowling father of Natalia, the woman whom Chekov's feeble hero Lomov wants to wed, and Barlow Anderson as Lomov reaches feats of physical hypochondria that defy description. Parkinson's production comes...
...Length in minutes of the Harold Pinter play Ashes to Ashes...
...oppurtunity to do anything but distance ourselves from the characters. If this is the rationale behind Muchmore's labeling of the play as mediocre, then the same label must be applied to such plays as Waiting for Godot (Beckett), The Bald Soprano (Ionescu), The Maids (Genet) and The Homecoming (Pinter...
...James Girolamo, 5, or Everett Webre, a mature 4, which Saturday-morning television shows they like best, and they will look at you blankly as though you were quizzing them about hedge funds or Harold Pinter. The boys, no budding back-to-the-landers, are the sons of TV-friendly Manhattan media professionals, but neither James nor Everett has ever watched Saturday-morning cartoons. "This is family time," explains Everett's mom Priscilla Glover, "one of the few times during the week we can all be together. Everett knows he can watch the Disney Channel whenever he wants...