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DARK STAR by Alan Furst (Houghton Mifflin; $22.95). Plot is less important in this impressive spy novel than description, the re-creation of the nightmarish tensions that erupted during the 1930s between Soviet NKVD agents and Stalin's Georgian thugs...
Like this semester's production of Daisy, The Errols proves that Harvard undergraduates can create superb musical compositions and assemble talented casts. Although in future plays Fletcher should attempt to flesh out the plot and production values associated with his musicals, this play remains a significant triumph...
Audiences unfamiliar with the play will be surprised to find that in the course of its two acts nothing actually happens--there is no plot, no intrigue and no denouement. The play's "message," if there is one, could be summed up in its opening line: "Nothing to be done...
...absence of a plot, the play's strength naturally lies in its terse, comic and frequently moving dialogue. Vladimir and Estragon engage in an endless exchange of aphorisms and meditations that range from somber and melancholy to grotesque and inane. They are slapstick hobos in bowler hats and rags, lifted from the innocent genre of the cabaret and set down in the bizarre world of Beckett's imagination. They celebrate the play's nothingness and stasis through repeated gestures and expressions of absurdity...
Godot is a difficult play to pull off successfully. With no plot and a minimal set, the text demands that the actors maintain a high level of energy to sustain dramatic interest. The Cabot production succeeds on this count more often than it fails. Jones turns in an engaging performance as Vladimir, the more flighty of the two derelicts. Striking comic postures that require yogic flexibility, he attacks his lines with the right degree of mania and pathos. His lanky frame and expressive face effectively contrast the countenance of his counterpart, Estragon...