Word: cryptogram
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SHAKESPEAREAN CRYPTOGRAM...
...years of age that year, and if you go to Psalm 46 and count in 46 words, you will come to the word shake. Go to the end of the psalm and count back 46 words, and the next word is spear. Perhaps it is a clever Shakespearean cryptogram. JOHN J. BEECING Bangkok
...setting is a homey, if spare, living room; but nothing much else about David Mamet's play The Cryptogram, which opened in Boston last week in a production by the American Repertory Theatre, is very reassuring. A young boy waits eagerly for his father to come home; he never does. The boy's mother is first heard offstage, breaking a teapot. A gay friend of the family's dissolves in guilt over a betrayal. No one seems capable of finishing a sentence or answering a question directly. There is vaguely unsettling talk about a combat knife...
...cryptogram" expecting to be able to easily unravel the various levels of meaning. Understanding comes not when one is leaving the theater or even on the way home, but only through subsequent thought and analysis. "the cryptogram" fits well the description Winston Churchill once used for the Soviet Union--"a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma...
...Cryptogram. Through Feb. 26. By DavidMamet. The story of betrayal, loss, thedestruction of faith in human friend-ship, and thefragility of the bonds of love. Performances beginat 8 p.m., Tues.-Sat.; at 7 p.m., sun.; and at 2p.m., Sat. and Sun. at the C. Walsh Theatre,Beacon Hill, Boston. Call 547-8300 for moreinformation...