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Yuppie play offers 1930s humor
By Ming Rodrigues
Ertcon? Revorter__
t 'niversity Theatre continues its mainstage
season with a witty, romantic, yuppie comedy
opening this Friday in Robinson Theatre
Playwright Richard Greenbergs Eastern
Standanl. set in New York City, mixes and
matches couples and classes in a comic summary
of the 1980s but is similar to the comedies of the
1930s and 1940s
Greenberg is a drama graduate from Yale and
last year his play Eastern Standard was the first of
his four plays to go to Broadway.
“I believe Eastern Standard is more than an
apology for yuppie lifestyles," said director John
Schmor. a graduate student in theatre arts
"It is a play about slightly damaged people
trying to make a better life, one with social re
sponsibility and commitment to those they love.
It's about four people who are nearing thirty and
finally learning to grow up."
The characters include a Wall Street broker
whose lover is in jail for insider trading, a televi
sion producer learning to live with AIDS, an ar
chitect who hates his work, a Soho artist and a
waitress-would-be-actress.
Schmor pointed out that the play's appeal
particularly lies in the honest portrayal of its two
gay characters, the television producer and the
Soho artist, who are lovers and whose sexuality is
not an issue in the play.
"There is no painful stereotyping in this play
and that's important," Schmor said.
Eastern Standard plays in repertory with Un
ford Wilson's Horn This, another contemporary
play about life and love which opened last Fri
day.
Tickets are $8.50 for the general public and
$4.50 for students and senior citizens. All seats
are reserved. Tickets can be picked up at the Rob
inson Theatre box office from 12:30 to 4 p.in.
Monday through Saturday and from 6:30 to 8:15
p in. on performance nights, or by calling
346-4191.
Additional performances are set for Nov 3. 8.
16. 17 and 29. All performances start at 8 p in.
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