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...American university town. Eight students share a poster-lined apartment; they worry about Vietnam, joke about sex, and make fun of their professors. As one character in Michael Weller's Moonchildren puts it. "You can't get more relevant...
...Moonchildren tries to take on too much--anti-war demonstrations, the "generation gap," cohabitation: Weller can't organize the bits and pieces of these students' lives into a coherent whole. His play's major flaw is the schism between the student world and the adult world; an assortment of "real" people enter and exit, but their collective intrusion is distracting rather than dramatic...
...Moonchildren. The Dunster House Drama Society's production of Michael Weller's play about five men and three women sharing a student apartment in the 60s. If it's done well, it's a very engaging show. Directed by Sam Guckenheimer. In the Dunster House Dining Hall, November...
THIS PLAY IS about students, but if it seems familiar to audiences around here it's probably less because its characters are like people we know than because so many plays recently have used the same sort of situation and devices (plays like Moonchildren and The Wager). What these plays have in common is the use of clever, Tom Stoppard-like dialogue as a facade, covering emotions that are revealed in a dramatic crisis. Paul Ableman is no Tom Stoppard, but his brand of collegiate wit keeps the surface of his play funny and entertaining...
Theater in Boston is rarely exciting, but until more productions open at the universities in the area it's a question of that or nothing. Moonchildren, at the Charles Playhouse on Warrenton Street, isn't bad at all, but you're liable to find the rest of the audience consists of busloads of high school kids...