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...RAGE IN ARGENTINA...
...PLAYED THE GROWNUP WHEN your boss dropped by your desk and, without so much as a "Good morning," disemboweled your latest departmental memo. You nodded, scribbled notes, praised his constructive criticism. Now, too peeved to concentrate, you phone a colleague and let your inner child rage. Grrrr. Insensitive troglodyte. Unappreciative bonehead. Grrrr. There, you feel better. Back to work...
Cases don't come any harder than Poncelet's. His drifting life reaches its nadir when, with another man, he commits a lovers' lane rape and double murder, steadfastly (and unpersuasively) insisting that he did not commit the killings. There is about him an inchoate rage tempered, if that's the word we want, by self-pity and a certain raw intelligence, which has led him to jailhouse lawyering and several stays of execution. It is largely the latter quality, and the challenging seductiveness of his manner, that leads Sister Helen to see in him the possibilities of redemption...
...KLEIN Nicholas Wright's off-Broadway drama apprehends the pioneering child psychologist Melanie Klein at a moment when her life perches above an abyss. It's an exacting role, and famed acting teacher Uta Hagen, at 76, executes a performance that is instructive at every step, advancing through arrogance, rage, bravado, fear...
...play drags toward its conclusion, Othello, deceived by lago into thinking his wife has been unfaithful, kills both Desdemona and himself in an act of unconvincing rage. Although Jed Silverstein and Alexandra Marolachakis give good performances as the foolish but passionate Cassio and the submissive Emilia, this play has few redemptive qualities...