Vogel, Paula - Steven Winn (review date 19 November 1992)
Steven Winn (review date 19 November 1992)
SOURCE: Winn, Steven. “A Baltimore Waltz with Love and Death.” San Francisco Chronicle (19 November 1992): D3.
[In the following review, Winn provides a favorable assessment of The Baltimore Waltz.]
AIDS gives the play [The Baltimore Waltz] its haunted minor key, its halting cadences and inevitable resolution, but the disease is never mentioned by name. In a comic tempo that wavers between enchantment and coy contrivance, Vogel inverts expectations by infecting a straight-arrow elementary school teacher (Anne Darragh) rather than her gay librarian brother (Rick Hickman) with a lethal disease. Accompanied, shadowed and hounded by a third actor (Kurt Reinhardt in a dazzling catalog of doctors, lovers, a Dutch boy in wooden shoes and other European prototypes), Anna and Carl take off on a whirlwind tour of the continent in search of a miracle cure. What awaits them, of course, is a...
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