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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT face=Georgia><FONT color=#333333>Clague
Playhouse’s ‘Heroes’ attacks from the rear</FONT></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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face=Georgia>Bob Abelman</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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Journal</FONT></SPAN></I><SPAN
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face=Georgia><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT color=#333333>French
playwright Gérald Sibleyras’ “</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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color=#3c4043>Le Vent Des Peupliers</FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">,”</FONT></SPAN><FONT face=Georgia><FONT
color=#333333><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "> which has been translated
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English by British playwright Tom Stoppard and retitled </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ">“Heroes,” </SPAN><SPAN
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a modest work affectionately referred to as a “</SPAN></FONT><SPAN
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color=#121212>boulevard comedy.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Like a boulevard, it is broad in terms of its humor, well-manicured in
its demeanor, and trotted upon by everyday people going about their everyday
business.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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color=#121212>It is 1959 when we encounter </FONT></SPAN><FONT
color=#333333><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ">three aging World War I
veterans on the terrace of their </SPAN><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"'>nursing
home.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There, they address a range
of small topics that loom large for old men with nothing but time on their hands
and fleeting memories of glory days on their increasingly fragile minds.<SPAN
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face=Georgia><FONT color=#333333>It is quite impossible to ignore that the
maladies of old age and world-wide warfare serve as the source material for this
comedy, which can be a tough row to hoe for an audience without the benefit of
French sensibilities or a British sense of humor.<SPAN
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face=Georgia><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT color=#121212>Clague
audiences are likely to find that the primary pleasure in this production lies
not in the work but in watching three brilliant, seasoned professionals at work
under Anne McEvoy’s gentle direction.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>She massages rather than mauls the play’s funny bone and instead of the
frontal assault the comedy has the potential to be, she allows
“</FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT color=#333333>Heroes”
to subtly approach the audience from the rear.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
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more of this review, go to: </SPAN><SPAN
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