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To say that Canetti's play revolves around death is an understatement. From the characters' names--or more aptly, their numerals--to the dated capsules they wear around their neck as reminders of their limited lifespans, the play focuses relentlessly on the passage of time. And if these tangible elements...

Author: By David H. Pollock, | Title: Mid-Life Crisis | 10/30/1984 | See Source »

Director Carlos Lapuerta adds a sense of creativity and imagination to the staging as we watch the plot and subplots smoothly unfold. Look for the predictable (and typically Shakespearean) swordfights, women dressing like men, hidden identities, a death or two, an ending with two marriage engagements, and the requisite comic...

Author: By Stuart A. Anfang, | Title: Just a Dream? | 10/25/1984 | See Source »

When it was first performed at the end of the 16th century, Much Ado must have seemed as modern as Utopia. The main plot dated back to the Greeks: fair Hero is slandered, then allows her lover Claudio to think she has died. But the subplot, in which Hero'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Terms of Enchantment | 10/22/1984 | See Source »

After cooking up their theory, the two scientists turned to proving it, primarily by examining craters on the earth that can be geologically dated, Sure enough, after analyzing data compiled by geologist Richard Grieve of brown university, they found that the ages of craters formed over the past 250 million...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Tracking the Death Star | 9/20/1984 | See Source »

Actors love to appear in this kind of play, whether it is a tattered valentine to eccentricity like The Time of Your Life or a dopers' tone poem like The Connection or this dated, indifferent travelogue through the seventh circle of hell. An actor can both inhabit his character...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Strutting in the Lower Depths | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

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