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Battleships are majestic, destroyers are dashing, submarines are sinister -but LSTs (landing ship, tank) are slow, clumsy, ugly, and somehow faintly comic. Lieut. Jake Adler, who commands LST 1826 as it bobs between Naples and Anzio during World War II, is an easygoing skipper who runs an exceedingly loose and...
Or at least at the Charles Playhouse they do. Director Michael Murray has taken this classic comedy with a moral bite and played it for broad laughter. Which it gets and deserves. But Murray and his actors (and for that matter, his designer, William Roberts) sometimes push too hard; the...
The technical sides of the production mirror the best and worst features of the acting. The incidental music syncopates Bach flute sonatas with jazz instrumentation a la Swingle Singers. Mixed with Roberts' brightly patterned sets and costumes (Charles Keating plays Valentine's feigned mad scene in a giant purple paisley...
But things go too far. Roberts has a penchant for jarring a hideous orange and a vile pink together. Everywhere. Orange chairs with pink seats. Pink and orange wall patterns. It's painful.
Britain's "wanted men" have a knack for avoiding police. James White, a member of the 1963 Great Train Robbery gang, posed as a fisherman in Kent for 21-years before he was caught. Baby Strangler John Edward Allen lived for two years within 200 yards of a police...