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...gravitational centerpieces of its new full-length U.S. dramas, the festival offers adaptations of The Grapes of Wrath and The Informer. This rather dubiously stretches the word new and, in the present instance, has the disconcertingly anti-theatrical effect of making a playgoer wish that he or she were reading the novels or seeing the films. And two sessions totaling 18 monologues are at least one too many...
Except that it is Pinter's funniest play, The Hothouse conforms to all of these characteristics. Written in 1958, it was Pinter's second full-length work. He withheld it from production at that time but, upon rereading it in 1979, decided that it was stageworthy. Pruned by the author but not rewritten, The Hothouse is being given a briskly polished U.S. premiere by the Trinity Square Repertory Company in Providence, R.I. It provides a fascinating embryonic glimpse of the themes, characters and even scenes that occur in such other Pinter plays as The Birthday Party, The Caretaker...
Audiences are doing just that, and critics too. Crimes of the Heart, Henley's first full-length play, brought her a Broadway hit and a Pulitzer Prize-she keeps the certificate in a desk drawer. Out of another drawer came Am I Blue, a one-acter she wrote as a sophomore at Southern Methodist University; it recently opened at Manhattan's Circle Repertory Company. The Miss Firecracker Contest, her second full-length play, has completed a successful run at Buffalo's Studio Arena Theater; and her latest, strongest play, The Wake of Jamey Foster, is charming theatergoers...
That prescription is surprisingly new. Back in 1975 few full-length recordings of books were available. Then, as now, only the blind and handicapped could borrow from the Library of Congress's several thousand titles on tape. But that year, Duvall Hecht, 51, an Orange County, Calif., commuter, helped found Books on Tape to counteract the cerebral atrophy he felt during his daily two hours at the wheel. Beginning with George Plimpton's Paper Lion on ten one-hour cassettes, Hecht's mail-order firm grew to represent 500 titles and adds 100 new works each year...
...Henze goes back to the Baroque Chaconne attributed to Tomaso Vitali, composing an extended (26 minutes), virtuosic set of variations for violin and orchestra that preserves the repeating harmonic structure of Vitali's music while steadily growing in complexity. Arien des Orpheus is an elegiac suite from his full-length ballet Orpheus, based on the Greek myth. And in Barcarola, a darkly impressive work for large orchestra, Henze imaginatively and theatrically depicts the gloomy world of Charon, the ferryman of dead souls across the river Styx. On display in each were Henze's command of orchestration, his sturdy...