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Article: CAST MAINTAINS ``DELICATE BALANCE''.(DAILY BREAK)(Review)
- Article from:
- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- November 3, 1997
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Byline: MAL VINCENT, THEATER CRITIC
``A DELICATE BALANCE'' is a play about a neurotic Connecticut family who talk about ``all these years that we have put up with each other's wiles.'' It concerns, according to one of its own characters, ``those of you who want to die and take your whole life doing it.''
It also takes the entire play doing it. These are rich WASPS who seemingly have nothing to do but go at each other, not directly, but with sly little digs that reveal their contempt. Familiarity has not bred just hatred but something more deadly, boredom.
The band-aid for each spat is a well mixed martini.
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