The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 26, 1978 Page: 7 of 20
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Theatre
The Rice Thresher, October 26,1978, Page 7
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Laurents' play may bomb on Broadway
Jamie Strauss
The Alley's latest world
premiere, Scream, hopefully
will see better days. Playing
through November 26 in
Houston, Scream then has
plans to travel east to none
other than Broadway. A few
things will have to change if the
play has hopes of staying there.
Arthur Laurents, the author
and director of Scream, is not a
novice to either writing or
directing plays and films. His
credits include The Wav We
Were and The Turning Point.
The five actors in the play are
also experienced but primarily
in television performances.
Some of the bad timing in the
delivery of the dialogue may be
attributed to this fact.
Scream is a comedy/drama
that should have stuck to either
being wholly comic or strictly
dramatic. But at times the
comedy was a relief from the
too mellowed drama.
The plot is a little hard to
believe. Set above a beauty
shop in Kew Gardens, Queens,
New York, two survivors of
several concentration and work
camps from World War II
recount the past, literally. The
opening is a catechism
involving the family of four
designed to "never forget" the
attrocities the Jews suffered.
Nessa, the mother, wearing
an attrocious red wig yells
shrilly, "Attention," and then
she proceeds to ask a question
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which is then answered in
unison or by a designated
member of the family. The
questions are similar to "how
many Jews died in the gas
chambers?"
This question and answer
ritual includes a slide show that
the audience is mercifully
excluded from. The play
unravels to reveal a son
returned Slightly crippled from
Vietnam who apathetically
smokes marijuana and
intermittently screams back at
Nessa that what he endured in
Vietnam was as bad as what she
went through at Auchswitz.
The daughter is married and
she lives in White Plains and
she is only concerned with her
materialistic status in life. She
has nothing but disdain for her
mother's search for a "big
potato." a Nazi war criminal.
C'oincidentally, Nessa
happens upon a former SS
officer who is also purchasing
tickets to Brazil. Nessa
convinces him that to be blond
again would shaveitwenty years
off of his life. She lures him
back to the apartment and flirts
with him. Julius, played by
Albert Paulsen, expecting
hanky-panky instead finds
himself handcuffed to a wheel
chair. The peeling of the "big
potato" is the most humorous
and absorbing part of the play.
The interaction between
Julius and Itzhak, the sickly
husband, is well acted. Their
remembrances of "the way it
was" is spiced with emotion.
But the ending sours when
Julius is made to crawl for the
first time in his life. The usual
death scene is not the clincher
that it is intended to be.
Nessa, played by Viveca
Lindfors, is vivacious and
energetic. But would a fifty- to-
sixtyish woman who escapes
many times from death camps
be dancing around her living
room i yelling at the top of her
voice?
The set, a contrast of pinks
and reds, leaves a lot to be
desired. The actors, with more
practice, will be an excellent
cast.
Scream, titled because Nessa
and Itzhak must scream to
make the world remember
what once happened and could
happen again, is on the whole a
mediocre play. The time before
November 26 may not be
enough to affect the changes
that must take place to make
this play unforgettable.
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Heard, Michelle Leigh. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 26, 1978, newspaper, October 26, 1978; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245384/m1/7/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.