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Article: `ON THE OPEN ROAD' BURSTING WITH IDEAS.(Entertainment)(Review)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- June 17, 1999
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When European theater professionals take potshots at their American counterparts, they generally aim for the brain. Or the lack thereof. The rap on U.S. plays and players is that they are intellectually shallow. Ingenious plots, vivid characters, sparkling dialogue, stylistic innovation, technical wizardry, fine - but where are ideas?
Well, a lot of ideas are on offer in ``On the Open Road,'' by Steve Tesich. ReAct is staging this intermittently witty absurdist drama.
Some of those ideas: cultural criticism, intellectual acrobatics, even theological speculation. The question ``When is it the Christian thing to do to kill Christ?'' comes up. Less subtle ...