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...says in an epilogue, he wished to test great propositions and their opposites but they all seem colored and half-true by the end of the play, and thus if nothing else, the play makes a brilliant statement of the mixed nature of men's souls. Good and evil. Playwright Peter Wiess wisely refuses to sort out clear alternatives, or declare a final winner. The script gives only vague clues as to whether Weiss feels kin to Marit's revolutionary idealism ("against Nature's silence. I use action. In the vast indifference. I invent a meaning") or to Sade...
...Jacqueline Brookes, in particular, brings affecting dignity to the role of King Xerxes' mother, as does J.A. Preston as the bearer of unbearable news. Underscoring the dialogue like a chorus of tears is the santur music of Composer Nasser Rastegar-Nejad. If someone had commissioned a great poet-playwright to write a drama for a Moratorium Day, this would...
Perceptive Ambience. Mutation is the master metaphor with which Playwright Paul Zindel links the worlds of botany and humanity. Some of the marigolds are withered, some aberrant, and some blossom handsomely. So it is in the family. It is difficult to know where praise of Marigolds should begin or end, and how to contain it. Sada Thompson may already have stolen the Obie award. Her acerb slatternly mother, gobbling cigarettes and guzzling whisky, might simply have been a mutilating monster-except that every other word and gesture reveals the maimed woman inside. The daughter roles are charged with compassion...
...Alec ruefully realizes that he makes better love in print than in person. The moment of climax is a moment of crushing, middle-aged anticlimax: "I can't make love in the past tense, and love seems to be all in the past tense for me nowadays." British Playwright Stanley Eveling then upends his hourglass plot with ironic precision to turn Janet into a successful young writer...
...Playwright Arthur Kopit and author John Lahr, son of Bert Lahr, both scheduled to give speeches at the Quiney House Arts Festival at 8 p. m. last night, instead disappeared into the street with their wives...