Word: one-act
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...movie is an adaptation of Simon's Broadway hit, a collection of four one-act plays set in the Beverly Hills Hotel. Rather than film the segments in succession, as Arthur Hiller did in his ill-fated screen version of Simon's Plaza Suite, Ross cuts back and forth among them. The result looks not unlike an episode of ABC's The Love Boat. The approach at least keeps the audience awake. One never knows when Ross will break away from the more tedious subplots to reveal a Simon zinger...
...jaded and world-weary soul. The right combination of funny lines and a troupe of willing hambones very often delight where pretensions to Polish and sophistication fail to entertain. A successful House show need be nothing more than unpretentious good fun and Winthrop House's production of two one-act plays comes very close to that elusive ideal...
Fans of German composer Kurt Weill, best known for his incomparable score of The Threepenny Opera, might be very interested in Down in the Valley. Weill composed this one-act opera in 1948 expressly for amateur groups. Stage Space, a neophyte Brookline company behind this production, is an amateur group in a technical sense only; the "Phoenix" praised the competence and the excellent voices of the performers. The story tugs at the tear-ducts, with events ending unhappily for two star-crossed lovers in Appalachia. But the music is superb, utilizing old folk songs and ballads; most viewers will recognize...
...Edward Albee, who has directed it and other plays he has written. "Nobody can get as much into the mind of the author as the playwright himself," says Albee, 50. For his latest project, he has directed a troupe of six actors who are presenting eight of his one-act plays, including The Zoo Story and The American Dream, on a 35-week tour of U.S. and Canadian universities. For parts of the tour Albee plans to be on hand. But actors, beware. The director has a ready brush-off. "When there is a question," he jokes...
Plays: Lunchtime Theater--2 one-act plays: Ludlow Fair by Lanford Wilson and Enchanted Night by Slawomir Mrozek. 12:30 p.m., Loeb Theater. Free but obtain tickets in advance...