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Article: 'EASTERN STANDARD' -- A PLAY OF THE '80S
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 6, 1989
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"EASTERN STANDARD" -- Play in two acts by Richard
Greenberg, directed by Michael Engler, set by Philipp
Jung, costumes by William Ivey Long, lighting by Donald
Holder, sound by Jan Nebozenko, at the John Golden
Theater, New York.
NEW YORK - If there's a specific play of the 1980s, "Eastern
Standard" is it. In a startling attempt to chart where we are --
and where we've been -- Richard Greenberg has written a map as
clear as the anguish on all our faces. And he takes us through some
devastating truths, often with a comic sense as startling as the
playwriting attempt itself. The only thing distracting about his
play, the only thing that keeps it at a certain ...