Word: shawn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory play themselves. Wally a New York playwright whose plays no one will bother to produce. Andre a world-renowned dramatist and incurable manic-depressive whose obsession with death seems to be the drug that keeps him plugged into the world. Andre invites his old friend Wally to come and meet him to talk and enjoy dinner at a lavish Manhattan restaurant...
Crimson long jumpers got the afternoon off to a good start by sweeping their event. James Johnson came in first with a leap of 22 ft. 11 in., followed by teammates Shawn Hall and Rob Taylor. Hall and Taylor also took first and second place in the triple jump, respectively...
...Manhattan restaurant, a round, balding actor-playwright named Wallace Shawn sits down to dinner with a lean, overarticulate theatrical director named André Gregory. The friends have not seen one another for some years mostly because Gregory has spent that time searching the world for transcendental experiences. He has been to adult play groups in Poland, Scotland, Tibet, the Sahara-and Montauk Point. It is a measure of what is wrong with this movie (and maybe with the culture of the '80s) that neither man sees anything funny about the intrusion of that last prosaic place on this otherwise...
...pair settle down to chomp through civilization and its discontents along with their quail. Gregory does most of the talk ing, and such disagreements as they have are politely put. Shawn seeks a certain comfort in routine; Gregory obviously seeks the intensification of experience that can result from a daily questioning of one's routines. Neither wants to pick a fight or, for that matter, make a convert. At most, it would seem, André wants to make certain that his odyssey was not in vain, that he learned something for his trouble. And, it must be said, there...
...role playing, so much self-dramatization going on in real life, that it has rendered the formal theatrical experience superfluous. Why go to a play or movie to see someone act a part when friends (and strangers) are doing it all around us all the time? One imagines, since Shawn and Gregory wrote this piece in a glumly realistic man ner, and play them selves with shameless conviction, that they intend to demonstrate that a dramatic work can actually be less stagy, more authentic, than life...