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South of the border, it is turista or "the Aztec two-step." In Asia, visitors from the West call it "Delhi belly." By any name, traveler's diarrhea, a debilitating digestive upset caused by a change in the system's bacterial population, is a synonym for misery that can spoil a trip and jeopardize the victim's health. The standard prophylactic for many years has been Entero-Vioform, a drug so frequently used that it is the traveler's best friend. That fond relationship has come under challenge by the American Medical Association. The A.M.A. Journal...
...last year, when a development project took away its home at the Back Bay Theatre and increased debts threatened to swamp it. The Company is back, however and stronger than ever, if its latest production is an indication. Harold Pinter's Landscape and Silence, and Sam Shepard's La Turista make up the most interesting evening of theatre at the Loeb so far this season...
...SHEPARD is one of the brightest people in contemporary theatre, with credits ranging from La Mama to Zabriskie Point. In La Turista, he has written a vehicle which succeeds on the level of farce, yet never seems at home on any other level. The play breaks cleanly at the acts, although each act mirrors the other to some extent in setting and characters. The first act can be taken as an entertainment, a humorous diversion of no great moment, but it seems to attempt something more. Shephard gives us two American tourists in a Mexican hotel, confronted with a strange...
...Turista is not the average Woody Allen tourist comedy. It is always engrossing, but also enigmatic, for Shepard never defines his people. Who is mad? Is it the doctor, or is it the patient? Who is sane? The wife, the witch doctor, the Mexican-cum-American-cum-southern black slave narrator? The viewer is just not sure, nor can he be, given Shepard's own lack of clarity. In any case, the acting is top rate, with Jan Egleson excelling in his ability to switch accents and characters in a moment, and Roberta Collinge marvelous as the wife...
...traveler can find an approved doctor for his sniffles or turista or worse in Amman (lordan), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) or Reykjavik (Iceland), as well as in such obvious tourist meccas as Paris (where the American Hospital is cooperating), Rome and Athens. The Soviet Union is not yet covered...