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...TANGO, by Polish Playwright Slawomir Mrozek, has David Margulies as a young man eager to exercise the sacred right of youth to rebel; but he finds that his totally permissive home life leaves him nothing to rebel against. Despite stilted direction and a somewhat awkward translation, the play is one of those rare and engrossing dramas that pay an evening-long courtesy call on the mind...
...TANGO, by Polish playwright Slawomir Mrozek, has David Margulies as a young man eager to exercise the sacred right of youth to rebel; but he finds that his totally permissive home life leaves him nothing to rebel against. Despite stilted direction and a somewhat awkward translation, the play is one of those rare and engrossing dramas that pay an evening-long courtesy call on the playgoer's mind...
...returns to this zany household, he is appalled, heartsick and intellectually in anguish. Eager to exercise the sacred right of the young to rebel, Arthur (David Margulies) finds he has nothing to rebel against in his totally permissive home except the permissiveness itself. This is the provocative core of Tango, Slawomir Mrozek's incisive comedy of debased manners, shattered forms, and the contemporary value vacuum. Mrozek, 38, is a Polish writer whose passport was canceled when he condemned Poland's role in the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. He now lives in Paris as a stateless person...
Rule of Force. Yet anyone who tries to decipher Tango as some sort of Iron Curtain cryptogram will miss half the fun and pertinence of the play. The socio-intellectual turbulence with which it stirs blows through all curtains, East or West. Arthur begins his counterrevolution with a stunning proposal-of marriage. Instead of just sleeping with his girl Ala as she expects, he wants her to marry him, and in church, of all places. He even asks for Grandma's blessing. She gives it without doffing her baseball...
...arms, while the father theorizes why he should not. Unfortunately, stilted direction robs this off-Broadway production of rightful humor, and the actors seem to admire the play without enjoying it. The translation into English is somewhat awkward and definitely requires idiomatic agility. Despite these production flaws, Tango is one of those rare and engrossing dramas that pays an evening-long courtesy call on the playgoer's mind...