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...material with excerpts from his or her work. The results are uneven. An upcoming 2 1/2-hour show on Eugene O'Neill brings on Actors Jason Robards and Geraldine Fitzgerald, among others, to perform scenes from O'Neill dramas. Interspersed are labored re-creations of people and events from the playwright's life, complete with sound effects (snoring in a flophouse) and performers impersonating such O'Neill intimates as his wives Agnes and Carlotta and Critic George Jean Nathan...
...life's endless informal competition for the most misguided venture, try this combination: a first-time playwright; a cast of relative unknowns; a depressing and largely forgotten incident of history; and a director born in France and trained in Britain making his U.S. debut with a show about that quintessentially American subject, baseball. The result would seem foreordained to be disaster. But Out!, the story of eight Chicago White Sox players who deliberately lost the 1919 World Series for a few thousand dollars a man, is instead an off-Broadway joy. Poignant, intelligent, funny and morally alert, it shows what...
...cannot serve as a cautionary tale about today's athletes, Playwright Lawrence Kelly's vision is at least a compelling metaphor for the way decent people in all walks of life slip into dishonesty. Kelly's perception is that the Black Sox did not cheat as individuals. They did so, following the basic tenet of their sport, as a team. Money may have been the bait but loyalty and comradeship were the motives that persuaded them, some with great reluctance, to betray their talents. As Chick Gandil (Paul Christie), the sour ringleader of the scam, remarks in an aside, people...
Plays about sports are risky business for both writer and producer. Pleasing both die-hard sports fans and regular theater goers can be a playwright's dilemma. The fan demands a high-degree of authenticity, complete with credible gestures, jargon and appearance. While regulars require a plot offering more than instructions on how to throw a fork-ball...
...reasons ranging from the player's age to a recent slump. During the performance, which spans "The Kid's" pitching debut, the actors constantly banter back and forth about which one will be cut. Through the funny repartee, that ranges from self-criticism to denigration, the Los Angeles-based playwright raises his characters from stereotypes to more complex figures...