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Evil has many faces in Nicky Silver's new iron-toothed comedy, but who is Silver's real devil? There are at least four strong candidates by the time the bodies stop piling up. There is the father, Arthur Duncan (Dennis Creaghan) who neglected his son, slept around to spite his wife and molested his daughter, Emma, throughout her childhood, leaving her short and long term memories permanently repressed. Or maybe the mother Grace Duncan (Marian Mercer) who molested her son, Todd (Christopher Collet), driving him to the street where he contracts AIDS. Or for that matter, the family friend...
...burly, assured person of Casey Biggs, and the play takes off. Mythology can be fun when Circe is a sassy dominatrix, the Sirens are mermaids out of a Bette Midler show, and Helen of Troy is a peckish, past-her-prime star who puts on airs -- Bea Arthur trying to be Bea Lillie. All this to Galt $ MacDermot's bouncy, familiar music -- it could be played in the lobby at a Club Med hotel...
Without making a big deal about it, Lancaster had artistic ambitions. Early on he smartly inhabited characters created by prestige dramatists: the returning soldier in Arthur Miller's All My Sons, the drunken husband in William Inge's Come Back, Little Sheba, the buffoonish Italian suitor (a terrific turn) in Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tatoo...
...chairman of the securities and exchange Commission, Arthur Levitt, wants to take the confusion out of investing, and his crusade is raising eyebrows on Wall Street -- which until now has managed to make investing as confusing as possible...
...DIRECTOR: Arthur Hochstein...