Word: stinton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...where you belong," a palmist cryptically tells the hero of David Mamet's latest play. Edmond Burke (Colin Stinton) is not a classic conservative who spells his first name differently but a conventional 34-year-old who lives on Manhattan's Upper West Side in middle-class complacency. He takes the palmist literally. Informing his wife that she is no longer spiritually or sexually attractive to him, he abruptly leaves home. Thus begins an odyssey into the sordid inferno of an urban sub-world...
...Edmond is that his intuitional reach exceeds his dramatic grasp. He senses that the times are out of joint, that modern urban man is doing a slow dance on a killing ground, but he seems half in love with that gaudy, bawdy death. In the title role, Colin Stinton is stubbornly and sensitively convincing in his search for the decontaminated self-a journey to salvation through the precincts of Sodom and Gomorrah...
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