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Title: Middle East Meets West in a Small Syrian Hotel
Post by: Shana A on May 17, 2008, 08:08:05 AM
Post by: Shana A on May 17, 2008, 08:08:05 AM
Middle East Meets West in a Small Syrian Hotel
Richard Termine for The New York Times
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/05/17/theater/reviews/17dama.html?ref=theater (http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/05/17/theater/reviews/17dama.html?ref=theater)
And then there's Elena (Dolya Gavanski), the hotel pianist and the play's Greek chorus. A Ukrainian Marxist Christian transsexual, she inhabits yet a third play, meant to be more philosophical and less conventional. It's too much for "Damascus."
Richard Termine for The New York Times
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/05/17/theater/reviews/17dama.html?ref=theater (http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/05/17/theater/reviews/17dama.html?ref=theater)
And then there's Elena (Dolya Gavanski), the hotel pianist and the play's Greek chorus. A Ukrainian Marxist Christian transsexual, she inhabits yet a third play, meant to be more philosophical and less conventional. It's too much for "Damascus."