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At the play's opening, she stands beside a fragile-looking wood model of her final project, an elaborate public swimming pool
'Private Jokes' Seen As Thought-Provoking
Nov 5, 5:04 PM EST
There they strut: two dragon-hearted professors, breathing fire at a nervous architecture student presenting her final project
Roche and Wade give deliciously pompous voice to those words, but with enough shading to keep their characters from becoming mere caricatures But by the time her presentation ends 80 minutes later, she has found a way past their rhetoric and back to her ideals
At first, she's unstrung by their attack
Kang) is a young Korean-American woman at a prestigious architecture school
With theatergoers doubling as classmates, two male professors (Sebastian Roche and Geoffrey Wade) pick her plan to bits â€â€? literally, at times, but mostly through the venom of their words It's neither modernist nor post-modernist
They're frustrated, you see, because they can't classify Margaret's work Luckily, there's enough plain talk to keep the uninitiated engaged
Safdie, himself a former architecture student, has an ear finely tuned to the profession's jargon J
As a third, more diplomatic professor, Anthony Rapp ("Rent," "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown") is also convincing, although his role is the play's shallowest Some passages fairly swim with obscure architectural references
Kang gracefully navigates Margaret's journey from self-doubt to confidence, even if the moment of her final transformation is gimmicky â€â€? one of Safdie's few missteps in an otherwise rewarding play For anyone who has experienced public speaking as a terrifying act, it's nail-biting viewing
Who couldn't sympathize with the poor woman?
"Private Jokes, Public Places," a smart new play by Oren Safdie playing at the Center for Architecture, creates remarkable dramatic tension with that simple premise Neither Asian nor Western
Margaret (M Therapeutic, too, because in the end, the student emerges triumphant, forced by circumstance to conquer her fears
