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...Charles Playhouse offers two totally different, but equally intriguing productions. Featured on a double bill are Sexual Perversity in Chicago and The Duck Variations, both one-acters by David Mamet. Best known for A Life in the Theater, Mamet has been called America's most vital young playwright, whatever that means. Meanwhile, the works of one of America's best-loved composer is represented in Decline and Fall of the Entire World as Seen Through the Eyes of Cole Porter, an interesting revue. For info on both shows, call the Playhouse at 426-6912; be sure to ask about student...
...scabrous ideas are expressed in the elegiac terms of a fable. In Days of Heaven he tells of a migrant worker, Bill (Richard Gere), who travels from Chicago with his lover Abby (Brooke Adams) and his kid sister Linda (Linda Manz) to harvest wheat for an aristocratic Texas farmer (Playwright Sam Shepard). Tired of "nosing around like a pig" and infuriated by his employer's wealth, Bill decides to use the ravishing Abby to bilk the farmer out of his fortune. No sooner does the scheme get going, however, than Abby falls in love with her prey...
WHAT REALLY SAVES this evening of Mamet--arguably America's hottest playwright--is the other, simpler, less garrulous drama--The Duck Variations. Not only is it funnier, more interesting, and better acted, it is deep and relevent and genuinely responsive--without being bombastic or tiring...
...Stoppard were not a playwright, he would probably be a magician-or a card shark. He delights in illusions and confusions, puns and verbal crostics, taking away with his left hand what he has just given with his right. In Every Good Boy Deserves Favor, at Washington's Kennedy Center, he has taken his art to its immediate limit: the play itself is a trick...
DIED. Robert Shaw, 51, fiery character actor, novelist and playwright who parlayed his rugged good looks and powerful screen presence into late-blooming Hollywood stardom; of a heart attack; in Tourmakeady, Ireland. Shaw wrote five novels, critically acclaimed in his native Britain, and rewrote one, The Man in the Glass Booth, as a successful Broadway play directed by Harold Pinter. But he was best known as an actor, first on the London stage (Tiger at the Gates, The Long and the Short and the Tall), later in American movies, where he portrayed a wide-ranging gallery of rogues. Among them...