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...festival this compact, where impressions and insights jostle for retention in the playgoer's cluttered mind, similarities among plays are easier to spot than originality. This year's crowds chuckled every time barking was heard offstage. Canines figured in nine of the plays, from the howling hounds of hell in Timothy Mason's In a Northern Landscape to the title creature in Patrick Tovatt's Bartok As Dog. Feminism, incest and home cooking were other recurrent themes. But on half a dozen occasions one could hear distinctive voices rising above the collective murmur-and, in Kathleen...
...mind. The thunderclap comes when he gets the sack after two decades at the school. "O Lord," he says like a last gasp of wind escaping from a toy balloon. He cannot comprehend it, and such is Ramsay's control of the nuances of his part that the playgoer is as stricken...
Mastrosimone fudges on the answers to some of the questions he raises. If you trap a rapist who planned to violate and kill you, is eye-for-an-eye justice immutable or does the common bond of humanity invoke mercy? First to last, Extremities holds the playgoer transfixed. Robert Allan Ackerman directs all the scenes like hand grenades with the pins pulled, and James Russo and Susan Sarandon, in particular, lob them with precision. -By T.E. Kalem
These are not piddling concerns, but they are put to the footling purpose of endless windbaggery. As one perplexed playgoer put it at the opening-night intermission, "Why are these people talking to each other?" -T.E.K...
Monday After the Miracle will be performed in many places with many casts, but it is doubtful if the miracle workers at Spoleto will be outperformed. Jane Alexander contains emotions like a dam, and as the tide of feeling rises and crests the dam breaks, the playgoer is flooded with her unleashed passion...