Also This Issue Art is all about the intimate warfare called friendship. Trailing gales of laughter and mostly rave reviews like the tail of a comet, Yasmina Reza's internationally successful comedy, Art, has arrived at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. It looks and sounds fine, ratcheted up to bravura boldness by the Playhouse's former Associate Artistic Director Charles Towers, and played against a stark white wall behind which designer Bill Clarke has tucked in some Corinthian hints of pillared museum columns.
Art is about the boundaries, uses, abuses and obligations of the intimate warfare called friendship.
It is also about how friendships can shift and shadow and sometimes, sadly, end. No other colors or design elements mar its monochromatic austerity. There is not even a frame. Marc feels obligated by friendship to accuse Serge of art-snobbery. Similarly obligated, Serge accuses Marc of art-ignorance.