30 — Wednesday, December 5, 1990 - North Shore News

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A BOY'S Life ain’t always easy. David Lovgren (left) and fan Butcher star in Studio 58’s production

of Boys’ Life, a fun cruise through the lives and problems of men.

Girls laugh at Boys’ Life

EN — CAN'T live
with ‘em, can’t live
without ‘em.

It’s a phrase that comes to mind
after seeing Studio 58's current
production Boys’ Life.

Billed as a contermporary com-
edy, the play chronicles the sex-
ploits (or lack thereof) of three ur-
ban men who cling to their old

BARBARA k:

theatre review

For some reason the men didn’t
Jaugh as much or as heartily as the
women. Lack of perspective, |
perhaps. But playwright Howard
Korder certainly pulled cut a few
pages from a boy’s fife that a lot of
people had read before — the
disaster date, the hopelessly blind
lover, and the guilt-laden post-

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buddy network of bygone years.
As they age they become three
distinctly different men, often
clashing on principle, but still in-
explicably bonded in the way men
can be. Sound familiar, women? .
Well, maybe the playwright had
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Along with all the other women in
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the “‘gentler’’ but incomprehen-
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