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Dalton's Hamlet misses that tragedy in its lust for innovation. Enter Claudius and court, and Frankie Goes To Hollywood's "Relax" echoes inside Leverett Old Library. Let Hamlet speak--whether of lust, love, murder, revenge, proto-angst, what have you--and make him wear a "Relax" button. Enter stage left characters with conspicuously placed Lee jeans patches. Somewhere under the seductive tones of "Relax" I could hear the equally seductive call, all the more insidious for its subtletly, "Innovate...
When PBS adapted three John Cheever stories for TV in 1979, Playwright A.R. Gurney Jr. (The Dining Room, Scenes from American Life) seemed ideally suited to write one of the scripts. Gurney has been for the stage what Cheever was for fiction: the foremost chronicler of the foibles and angst of the Wasp upper middle class. The adaptation succeeded. But it also pointed up a significant difference between Cheever's striving suburbia and Gurney's blue- blood Buffa- lo: while many of Cheever's bedeviled characters are avidly accumulating, almost all of Gurney's etiolated aristocrats are watching the family...
...fine hand to synthesizers on one of the album's best cuts, Chasing the Night-but their songs are as funny and full of 360-degree mockery as ever. Endless Vacation, which sounds like a sort of Beach Boys pastiche, is in fact a paean to homicidal teen angst that features this reflection on the mutability of contemporary existence: "Like takin' Carrie to the high school prom/ something's always goin' wrong." The Ramones are the philosopher kings of nerddom ("Every one's a secret nerd/ Every one's a closet lame"), the laureates...
Beckett may be, as ART members protest, the greatest living playwright--my money's on Tom Stoppard--but he oversteps his artistic bounds when he insists that all productions of his minimalist angst orgy treat Beckett's radicalism as orthodoxy...
Nicole Galland (Emma) and Brad Dalton (Jerry) also turn in fine performances as the deux et trois of the menage, though they are unable to shake an inability to project the midlife angst of English Big Chillers nearing the big four-oh. Eric Rosencrantz contributes a refreshing dose of Italo-campiness in his waiter cameo...