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This could be worth resaying if Shaw or Stoppard were in the pulpit, but despite First Reader Plummer's acute rendering of Doctorow's wry, sardonic and satiric sermon, Drinks Before Dinner is a smudge pot of a drama that never blazes into revelation...
NIGHT AND DAY by Tom Stoppard...
...Stoppard sits down at a keyboard of words, and plays upon them with wickedly clever virtuosity. Few can resist his cerebral variations on the themes of Hamlet in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and The Importance of Being Earnest in Travesties...
...Stoppard, his new play Night and Day, currently running at London's Phoenix Theater, is a distinct departure. The characters are emotionally engaged and audience-involving. Like flexing previously unused muscles, this leads to odd moments of strain, which is not to say that Stoppard's satiric eye and élan vital do not make for a prevailingly entertaining evening...
Night and Day finds Stoppard in an interesting transitional phase where without shelving his own mad cap, he is trying on Bernard Shaw's dialectical beard...