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Article: Painful memories surface in 'Mouth to Mouth'
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- November 7, 2008
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"Mouth to Mouth" by English playwright Kevin Elyot is a melancholy little memory play, sad yet compulsively watchable in its disturbing tale of friendship and family pulled apart by desire and selfishness.
It requires acting and direction of extraordinary precision, something that hasn't quite happened yet in the New Group's still tentative production, which opened Thursday at off-Broadway's Acorn Theatre. A few more performances should do the trick.
The play, directed by Mark Brokaw, chronicles the tortured indecision of Frank, a gay writer with AIDS and his relationship with best friend Laura and her family. What that relationship involves comes out in a ...
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