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Re: Anyone seen Handshake in NYC?
Unfortunately, the review in today's New York Times was not positive, although the reviewer seems to appreciate the "inherent drama in medicine." Some excerpts: "'Handshake' ... tries to recreate a surgical procedure called pallidotomy....But in the staging ... it looks more like an execution in the electric chair and serves as a testament that brain surgery is not playwriting. ... In plays in which the drama is internal -- as when disease is the protagonist -- it is the characters who must maintain an audience's interest, as in successful medical dramas like 'Wit'...Although there is biogaphical data about [the patient] and his family (and the surgeon) strewn through 'Handshake', one never really ges to know any of them. ...The production ... is curiously listless... None of the performances rise much above scene-study level..." Phil Tompkins Hoboken NJ age 62/dx 1990
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