The Village Voice, February 5th, 2003
THEATER
'Fifth' Still Has Kick, but 'Kimberly' Is All Akimbo
FIFTH OF JULY By Lanford Wilson Signature Theatre 555 West 42nd Street 212-244-7529
KIMBERLY AKIMBO By David Lindsay-Abaire Manhattan Theatre Club 131 West 55th Street 212-581-1212
"Unhappy is the land that has no heroes," complains the young monk in Brecht's Galileo. To which his wiser master replies, "Unhappy is the land that needs a hero." Put the word 11 play" in place of "land" in that exchange, and you learn something about art, which mostly displays models of human disaster and failure. Certainly dramatic art does; almost ...
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