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face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Bob Abelman</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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The Morning Journal</FONT></FONT></SPAN></I><SPAN
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Theatre Critics</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Several years ago, in a revival of Sam
Shepard’s “<SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic">True West” at New York’s
</SPAN>Circle in the Square Theatre, actors Philip Seymour Hoffman and John C.
Reilly alternated the roles of the two estranged brothers every third
performance. They did this for the creative challenge and the box office
draw.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Allan Byrne and Allen Branstein might
consider doing the same in Shepard’s “Ages of the Moon,” currently on stage at
Ensemble Theatre.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But they should
swap roles permanently to help salvage this occasionally moving but largely
tepid production under Stephen Vasse-Hansell’s
direction.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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