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Durang's script blends the conventions of slapstick, classic musicals. French farces, family dramas, metatheater and Shakespearean word play into a daring yet intelligent collage, characteristic of his other works. The play moves along swiftly, though the last ten-minutes, set after the play has actually sunk, seems a bit anticlimactic...
...ever closer, though without the hope of salvation such as Mary Webster's. Part four is a series of poems written for a dying parent. In one scene, a woman tries to remember her father through a series of dream images, each proving elusive and unsatisfactory. In another scene, Shakespearean tragedy undergoes a reversal that is anything but, as a Lear figure finds himself watching terrible television in nursing home...
...been to playing a variety of challenging and not race-specific roles. For every Malcolm X, in which he starred as the slain Muslim leader, there was a Philadelphia, in which he played a homophobic lawyer who just happened to be black. He has shown a facility for Shakespearean comedy (Much Ado About Nothing), as well as for Spike Lee drama (Mo' Better Blues). In just the past four months Washington has had starring roles in three very different films: the submarine drama Crimson Tide, the high-tech thriller Virtuosity and the murder-mystery Devil in a Blue Dress, which...
...most talented, cohesive and dexterous to grace a Harvard stage in some time; and for a few aching moments, at the opening of the play, they give us scenes from Shakespeare that are truly lovely. The fond hope arises in one's breast-- perhaps they will abandom the sophomoric Shakespearean parody into which they have been forced and perform Twelfth Nightor As You Like It. instead...
...Cabot House, the stakes are not so high as in the Shakespearean comedy. There is no gold to be carried and there are no marriages to be destroyed. But there are two pairs of female identical twins in the house, each pair with the same major, and both in each pair living next door to each other...