By Mark Hampton and Mary Louise Wilson At Towson University's Center for the Arts, Studio Theater, through July 1 Marlene Loeschke plays fashion doyenne Diana Vreeland in Full Gallop .
Fashion trends come and go, but great theater is always in style.
And the Maryland Arts Festival production of Mark Hampton and Mary Louise Wilson's Full Gallop is great theater. With a fun, witty script, C. Richard Gillespie's fluid direction, and Maravene Loeschke's powerhouse performance as famed fashion maven Diana Freeland, Full Gallop is in full stride from start to finish. Gallop , mounted for the festival at Towson University's Center for the Arts, takes place in Vree-land's lavish Park Avenue apartment in 1971, after the longtime Vogue editor has been unceremoniously sacked. The play gives a fictionalized account of this extraordinary woman's life and her refusal to back down, even in the face of defeat. Loeschke, who is giving her 19th performance in a Maryland Arts Festival production, is marvelous in what amounts to a one-woman show.