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Funded by a $250.000 grant from the American Express Foundation, a company of about 25 will present Andrei Serban's "Sganarelle: An Evening of Moliere Farces" and "Grownups," a new play by Jules Feiffer...
...Jean Giraudoux's sophisticated reshaping of the Greek myths. At other times, sloppy, inane, incongruous desecration masquerades as creative reincarnation, and the people involved spout rubbish about "making the work speak to our own time." In the present instance, Joseph Papp, who took over as director from Andrei Serban and at whose off-Broadway Public Theater Alice in Concert is being presented, reveals no guiding wisdom or purpose...
Under the telling direction of Andrei Serban, the revival at Manhattan's Public Theater embraces all these aspects of Chekhov in part or in whole. The cast is admirable, and Serban's painterly eye groups them in configurations that enhance Jean-Claude van Itallie's faithful and felicitous adaptation of the text. Best of all, this production captures the ruminative pauses in Chekhov when people seem to be listening to faint, melancholy music borne across still, nocturnal waters...
...first and gravest risk is to make little more than a sofa, a bookcase and a child's rocking horse serve as a house and have no hint of the cherry orchard. Like his disciple Andrei Serban, Rumanian Director Radu Penciulescu has placed his characters in a lunar landscape that no one could either cherish or grieve to lose...
Sindona maintains that he was abducted by Italian terrorists who wanted information from him about crimes committed by top Italian politicians, and that he was wounded when he tried to escape. Says his psychiatrist, Dr. George Serban: "If this gentleman was not kidnaped, he should get an Oscar for acting...