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- <text id=92TT0272>
- <title>
- Feb. 03, 1992: View Points:Theater
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Feb. 03, 1992 The Fraying Of America
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- VIEW POINTS, Page 56
- THEATER
- The Price Is Right
- </hdr><body>
- <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.
- </p>
- <p>By William A. Henry III.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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