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...author of the play," the man answered, "and I'm the director as well. You may not have noticed." "Well," retorted the prop man, "I can't say I did." It may not have happened that way, of course, but that is the way Alan Ayckbourn, the playwright and strange-looking man, likes to remember it. Not being noticed is his idea of bliss. "When I leave a room," he says, "I'd much prefer for nobody to know I've been...
...Playwright Luis Valdez has tried to shape this tale as a mixture of myth, documentation and fantasy, but he never gets past the ABCs in any category. Edward James Olmos is electrifying as the embodiment of the mythic hero known as El Pachuco, but the script short-circuits him, and he is reduced to cynic snarls and stylized struts. Daniel Valdez is winning as a gang leader with unstained valor. He is stalemated in a TV-style love triangle between his loyal Chicano girlfriend (Rose Portillo) and a Jewish minority-rights defender (Karen Hensel) of inflammable zeal...
MARRIED. Jill Clayburgh, 34, stage and film actress currently nominated for an Oscar for her role in An Unmarried Woman; and David Rabe, 39, playwright; she for the first time, he for the second; in Manhattan...
...Three Sisters is long--it runs about three hours--and Sellars' habit of freezing the scene at key moments doesn't speed it up any. But the Chopin behind it all transports the audience into the contemplative melancholy of the play itself--leaving audience, actors and playwright running at the same speed. The tempo lags only in the final act. With bare stage, static blocking and house lights turned up, the staging is faithful to Chekhov's sense of desolation, but also somewhat trying to an audience at the end of a three-hour haul...
...affair with Annie's fiance. Callously neglected by her late husband, Ruth fervently argues that loyalty and fidelity are above price. Only Aunt Helen has shared untarnished love in a lesbian idyl with an aviatrix now long dead. It is an odd angle of vision that per mits Playwright Babe to present this as the sole satisfactory relationship...