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January 4, 1988THEATERBEST OF '87
HUNTING COCKROACHES A vibrant farce by Polish Emigre Janusz
Glowacki evoking the plight of refugee intellectuals: an
actress who cannot overcome her glottal-stop accent and her
novelist husband who looks for his lost sense of context and
insight by puzzling over the rectilinear shapes of Western
states on his map.
INTO THE WOODS Stephen Sondheim's best musical yet, gorgeous
to look at and haunting to hear. A fractured fairy tale
bringing into the same forest Cinderella, Rapunzel and the like
and asking what comes after happily-ever-after.
JOE TURNER'S COME AND GONE At the Yale Rep and on tour, a
shimmering, mysterious depiction of rootless and religiously
obsessed blacks in the early 20th century. The best work of
August Wilson, the stage's foremost poet of the American black
experience, who this year won a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony for
Fences when it reached Broadway.
LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES Choderlos de Laclos's classic
epistolary novel of sexual conquest and betrayal, given
entrancing with and apocalyptic power by Adapter Christopher
Hampton and a dazzling Royal Shakespeare Company production.
THE MAHABHARATA A 9 1/2-hour adaptation by Peter Brook, elder
statesman of the avant-garde, of the great Hindu antiwar epic.
Inevitable longueurs and some uncertain English from a polyglot
cast, but spellbinding ritual and visual metaphor.
LES MISERABLES Victor Hugo's unforgettable story set to an
emotion- drenched score. Throbbing with outrage yet, in the
nonpareil staging by Trevor Nunn and John Caird, exalting.
THE ROAD TO MECCA Athol Fugard's almost Ibsenesque musing about
the conflict between an independent artist and orderly society.
SWEET SUE A.R. Gurney Jr.'s wry May-September romance, with
each of its two characters represented by two actors, not as a
gimmick but as a reflection of the underlying theme: that the
real action in anyone's life takes place inside his or her own
head.
THREE POSTCARDS A delicately surreal play with music bringing
together three women for a dinner that yields expected
revelations in unexpected ways. From South Coast Rep in Costa
Mesa, Calif., an unlikely but thriving venue for new work.
A WALK IN THE WOODS From Yale, Lee Blessing's witty and
provocative two-hander, debating, of all things, nuclear
disarmament, via the Geneva chats of a Soviet and a U.S.
negotiator.