Word: wellerli
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...substance has revealed himself in a guilt-ridden memory play, from Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Eugene O'Neill's long-concealed Long Day's Journey into Night to Lanford Wilson's Lemon Sky and Neil Simon's Broadway Bound. Into those ranks comes Michael Weller. Heretofore best known for Moonchildren and the screenplay of Hair, both valedictories to the '60s, Weller looks back to his adolescence, a decade earlier, in Spoils of War. His story of estranged parents and a teenage son who schemes to reunite them is a harrowing addition to the genre...
...stand-in for Weller is Martin (Christopher Collet), a gawky and irritable but predictably literate youth whose clumsy idealism embraces everything from ending the cold war to a metaphorically equivalent attempt to halt the chilly state of nonrecognition between his mother and father. The parents are former leftist activists who once lived for "the movement" and each other, and now find only regret in recalling either ardor. The father (Jeffrey DeMunn) is genial enough -- a mildly successful photographer who deflects his son's attempts to romanticize him -- although his affability fades into meanspirited vehemence at the least challenge to macho...
...Editors: Michael J. Bonin '89 Laurie M. Grossman '89 Features Editors: Melissa R. Hart '91 Benjamin R. Miller '89 Sports Editors: Mark T. Brazaitis '89 Casey J. Lartigue '89 Julio R. Varela '90 Photography Editor: Hector I. Osorio '89 Business Editor: Kenneth M. Richman '90 Copy Editor: David L. Weller...
SPOILS OF WAR. Kate Nelligan shows the dark side of an Auntie Mame-style mom in Michael Weller's off-Broadway memory play, through June...
SPOILS OF WAR. Kate Nelligan shows the dark side of an Auntie Mame-style mom in Michael Weller's off-Broadway memory play, through June...