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Feb. 03, 1992: View Points:Theater
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
Feb. 03, 1992 The Fraying Of America
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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VIEW POINTS, Page 56
THEATER
The Price Is Right
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<p> The world's wealthiest woman shows up at the impoverished
village of her birth and offers improvements beyond imagination,
plus a fortune for each man, woman and child. There is one
catch: the townspeople must murder their popular mayor-elect.
In his youth he seduced and abandoned a poor girl so he could
marry a little money. Now old and rich, she wants vengeance. She
believes everyone has a price, and she is right. Friedrich
Durrenmatt's morality play The Visit seemed shockingly cynical
when the Lunts brought it to Broadway in the '50s. In a sad
measure of the disillusioning years since, it now triumphs as
a comedy. Harris Yulin is fine as the betrayer and Jane
Alexander dazzling as the raddled revenger. But the real star
is Alexander's husband Edwin Sherin, who has directed in high
Austro-German style, most of the characters sporting masks and
sounding like puppets. He controls the tone unerringly. The
simpler and more childlike the telling, the more piercing the
satire gets in Broadway's finest revival of the past half-dozen
years.
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<p>By William A. Henry III.
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