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From: srm@nsc.UUCP (Richard Mateosian)
Newsgroups: net.theater
Subject: Re: Prop-intensive plays
Message-ID: <2762@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 25-May-85 16:17:29 EDT
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Posted: Sat May 25 16:17:29 1985
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In article <5601@ucla-cs.ARPA> reiher@ucla-cs.UUCP (Peter Reiher) writes:

>>Next year Berkeley Rep is doing "The Art of Dining" by Tina Howe, 
>>I'm pessimistic.
>
>Your pessimism is fairly well justified. The play is little
>more than a curiosity, and I can't see why anyone would bother doing it
>again.  Indeed, gourmet food is required, and part of the idea of the
>play is that the audience can smell the food itself, adding to the realism
>(about the only good idea in the play).  The kitchen is on stage, so there
>is only a certain amount of fudging possible.

I don't KNOW, of course, but I SUSPECT that the fact that Narsai David
(TV and radio cook and owner of a well known Berkeley restaurant) is on
Berkeley Rep's board of directors has something to do with it.
-- 
Richard Mateosian
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