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Article: `ESCOBAR' A QUIRKY PARABLE THAT'S BOTH MURKY AND ENGAGING.(Entertainment)(Review)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- July 6, 1999
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Not much clarity here. But lots of atmosphere. ``Escobar,'' receiving its premiere production at the Theatre Off Jackson, is murky and sinister. Playwright Steven R. Barron's style creates a fog in which who's who and what's what sometimes get lost.
One thing is clear, however: ``Escobar,'' like any play in which a personification of death appears, is a parable. The parable is quirky and engaging at times. At other times it is muddled and diffuse.
When death, wearing a red-and-white bowling shirt and black jeans, dances a tango with an outwardly perky though inwardly sad high school cheerleader, the moment is intriguing. But when an ailing Vietnam ...