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The show is quick, rich, and puzzling Very puzzling. It is set in the 1960s on "the day the Pope came to New York" in the apartment of Artie Shaughnessy There are 10 visible and working television sets facing the audience, a car door stage left, and a refrigera tor with what must be a beacon inside stage right Artie writes songs. He wants to run off with Bunny who he met at a health club Together they’re going to commit his wife Bananas His son Ronnie is AWOL in New York, to blow up the Pope What's puzzling is why direc tor Peter Davis staged it so odd ly Why are there characters walking through all the time? Why are those 10 TV sets flick ' ‘House of Blue Leaves "Isa good evening's entertainment despite Haws. ering on and oft? Why are the clothes a debutante's nightmare? A play has to make sense Even if it's nonsense — like Ion esco, or Pinter, or Beckett, even Stoppard — there must be a clear vision of what sense there is none of John Guare's plot, such as it is, makes some sense There are some riveting monologues, and enough quirks and bends to hook any viewer Yet the audience leaves puzzled If this is Davis’ raison d’etre, then he succeeds Which is not to say that "House of Blue Leaves" is not a marvelous evening’s entertain ment It is It’s that director Davis spoils some of the best damn acting I’ve seen in a col lege production in years There’s an old saying in the theater (Yes dear readers, I’m well past 30, have been involved in theater since I was a boy, and can say these things.) that it's much easier to play crazy peo ple than normal ones Well, after two plays trying to be more or less normal, the young cast really cuts loose Aseneth James as Bananas is so alive, so full, so balanced that her insanity makes complete sense She loves Artie Her "madness" is Artie's madness When James delivers her mon ologue the audience has no where to go but right inside her soul with her As Ronnie, Nicholas Smith manages to stay right up with his exquisite mother. His mon ologue about the deep trauma inducing experience which warped his young mind should make everyone squirm with remembered shame at his or her own secret guilts Charlotte London as Bunny and Barry Pitzer as Billy Einhorn both possess just the right counterbalance 1‘or Stephan Yarian's Artie Bunny is a whacko who cooks instead of screws, and Billy is a Hollywood director who loves his boyhood pal. But Yarian, who so complete ly carried "Harvey" on his shoulders, is an enigma At times he’s brilliant, hanging on to the puppet strings of every one in the cast At other times, he doesn't seem to even know what to do with his hands It is Yarian who suffers most from Davis'incon sistent directing See "House of Blue Leaves,” but don't go expecting to be passive At one point Artie tells us "The greatest talent is to be an audience Anyone can create There's your theme. 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