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Article: BATHHOUSE MOOD SET TO SHIFT FROM UPBEAT TO DOWN AND OUT.(What's Happening)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- September 4, 1998
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OK, sweetness and light, your time's up. It's bitter darkness's turn.
A cheery musical, ``All I Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten,'' held sway all summer at the Bathhouse Theatre. The show - based on a Robert Fulghum best seller that is a heartening compendium of positive thinking - affirmed the old, the young and the middle-aged.
So much for that. In ``Endgame,'' which opens Thursday at the Bathhouse, the old folks are in trash cans. Literally. Their middle-aged son and his bedraggled servant bicker and backbite. And the young? They don't exist in playwright Samuel Beckett's gray and decaying woebegone world.
``Yes, we're ...