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- <text id=91TT1642>
- <title>
- July 22, 1991: View Points:Theater
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- July 22, 1991 The Colorado
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- VIEW POINTS, Page 65
- THEATER
- Icebound on Fire Island
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- <p>By William A. Henry III
- </p>
- <p> Two married couples, linked by kinship and tacitly tolerated
- adultery, strive to have fun in what is for them a queasy
- setting: a gay ghetto on Fire Island, near New York City, where
- one of them inherited a house from a brother who died of AIDS.
- But they experience the gift as a reproach for past neglect,
- and with one set of too near neighbors blaring opera while the
- other revs up show tunes, they feel like interlopers, a misfit
- minority. This gay-straight conflict, subtly mused on, lifts
- Terrence McNally's LIPS TOGETHER, TEETH APART beyond tragicomic
- tone poetry about the lonely vagaries of wedlock. Since the
- play opened last month off-Broadway, the foursome have been
- exquisitely played by Nathan Lane, Anthony Heald, Swoosie Kurtz
- and Christine Baranski. Alas, both actresses depart this week
- for other commitments. The replacements are estimable--Roxanne
- Hart for Kurtz, Deborah Rush for Baranski--but it is hard to
- imagine that the emotional journey, all around the world on one
- sun deck, can be the same.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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