Friday, November 14, 1986
Daily Nebraskan
Page 5
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NDT looks at tike Big Apple
Plays about New York give audiences both comedy and drama
By Chris McCubbin
Senior Reporter
New York doesn't make much sense
to Nebraskans, and vice versa. We can't
really understand them, they can't
really understand us. We're fascinated
by New York, or at least by the images
Theater Review
of New York we pick up from detective
shows and sitcoms, but we really can
come no closer to what it means to be a
New Yorker than we can to knowing
what It means to be an Albanian or a
Masai.
In "All Around the Town," the cur
rent production of the Nebraska Direc
tors Theater, director Jon Meyer, a
transplanted New Yorker, is trying to
give Nebraskans a somewhat more
mature and truthful vision of the Big
Town than they can get from "Hill
Street Blues" or "The Jeffersons."
"All Around the Town" is three short
plays: "The Lovliest Afternoon of the
Year" by John Guare, "Death Knocks"
by Woody Allen, and "The Indian Wants
the Bronx" by Israel Horovitz. The
mood is set and sustained between
pieces by an imaginative selection of
New York songs from Billy Joel, Frank
Sinatra and a number of Broadway
shows.
"The Loveliest Afternoon Of the
Year" is a mildly surrealistic comic
love story. Kent Lintlemar, who was so
delightful recently as the Orphan in
"Celebratior " Isjust as charming here,
but the enthusiastic performances of
Llndemar and the equally amiable
Yvonne Anderson are not enough to
make this play go, In this play, as In
many plays from the 70s, many amus
ing things are said, but nothing really
happens, and "Loveliest Afternoon"
remains unsatisfying.
"Death Knocks" took me back to my
high-school speech-contest days. If
you've never seen this Woody Allen
sketch you'll probably erjoy this rather
clownish interpretation, but most
literate theater-goers probably had
"Death Knocks" all but memorized
before they even started college.
But "The Indian Wants The Bronx" is
more than worth the price of admission
all by itself. "Indian" was an important
vehicle for launching the career of the
young Al Pacino when it opened 20
years ago.
"Indian" is the story of two lower
class young men who meet an elderly
Near-Eastern man who doesn't speak
English. Their taunting of the old man,
their confiding in him, their irrational
fear of his dignity and strangeness and
the old man's growing confusion and
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Tom Viessman plays Gupta, the Indian
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The Nebraska Directors Theater is
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(Rob Mc Tarffer) left. "Death Knocks" by Woody Allen is one
of three plays that make up "All Around The Town," the
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