Word: reddin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...TIME. Keith Reddin's sly look at yuppies on the make in international finance transfers from Harvard to off-Broadway...
Written by Keith Reddin...
Those people looking for a break from the electron-based spittle that dribbles from your tube should forgo Big Time, where even the stage is designed to mimic the glowing box. Subtitled "Scenes from a Service Economy," this recent play by Keith Reddin rarely has anything to offer that isn't of McQuality. Even though a pleasantly short production of 75 minutes--with commercial breaks that's a 90 minute TV special--Big Time rapidly becomes tiresome and repititious...
...decision to include an excerpt from the Newsweek article christening yuppies in the program. Just in case it wasn't already in the zeitgeist of everyone in the theater, the article assured the existence of a common culturally stereotyped language. Yet it doesn't seem that even Reddin actually believes that yuppies are without any individual quirks or desires. The actors, who are stiff and who often seem to be unsure of themselves, fail in the rare opportunities the script gives them to show real emotion and desire...
...shadows of his outsize personality and mercurial but galvanic enthusiasms. Over the years Papp, 66, has brought live drama to prime-time network TV, invaded Broadway with musicals (A Chorus Line, Pirates of Penzance, Drood), introduced new playwrights and plays from David Rabe (Streamers, about Viet Nam) to Keith Reddin (Rum and Coke, about the Bay of Pigs invasion) and provided stage-acting challenges for Hollywood stars including Robert De Niro and William Hurt...