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...Arcati accidentally materializes; and all three of the Condomines are passionately in love with themselves. Most productions of Coward tend to be as glittery and brittle as spun glass. Murray brings the proceedings down to earth: these are not natural aristocrats but peasants with money and a veneer of polish, and when they mockingly meddle in the supernatural to gather color for one of Charles' books, they bring chaos crashing down upon themselves...
...drugstores, the familiar white boxes say Johnson & Johnson. But in court the ampersand was changed to versus, and the aim was not to relieve pain but to exacerbate it. One Johnson was Barbara ("Basia"), nee Piasecka, the Polish-born cook-chambermaid who became the third wife of J. Seward Johnson, heir to the pharmaceutical fortune. At the time of their marriage in 1971, he was 76, she was 34. The other Johnson signified J. Seward's six litigious children from his two previous marriages, excised from the old man's will shortly before his death...
Still, Cohn has changed Blood Wedding in many fundamental way. Garcia Lorca's primal story and themes remain, but his poetry and Andalusian spirit are either lost on the audience or are simply lost. The actors and production crew bring technical polish to the production, but the translation and Cohn's other changes tend to dilute their efforts to provide Blood Wedding with the intensity it deserves...
...emigre actress renowned in Warsaw for roles in the classics. In New York City she shuffles around a decaying and almost bare tenement flat, hanging up tea bags to dry for reuse while intoning Lady Macbeth's hand- washing scene in an odd singsong with a thick Polish accent. No one will hire her, and even she can hear herself and understand...
Playwright Janusz Glowacki, 48, understands these frustrations all too well. After his novel Give Us This Day, about the birth of Solidarity, was banned by the Polish censor in 1981, Glowacki arrived in the U.S. as a virtual unknown. Hunting Cockroaches, which opened off-Broadway last week, transmutes his struggles into vibrant farce devoid of self-pity. During an emblematic sleepless night, as nightmare figures ranging from an immigration officer to condescending liberals pop out from beneath their bed, the pragmatic couple never complain of life's unfairness. They accept having to prove themselves. They just wish it would...