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| | WashingtonPost.com: `Cryptogram': Child's Play |
 | | In David Mamet's "The Cryptogram," which opened Sunday at the Studio Theatre, the hero is a precocious, sensitive, highly intelligent boy of 11 or so named John (Michael Leon Drezner). |
 | | In "The Cryptogram," the pinched dramatic style and the pinched emotional content combine to produce a very small theatrical experience. |
 | | A cryptogram is a code, a cipher, a puzzle, but the hidden message here turns out to be that familiar wail, "It's all my parents' fault!" Like "Long Day's Journey Into Night," "Death of a Salesman" and "The Glass Menagerie," "The Cryptogram" is written from a son's point of view. |
| www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/local/longterm/theater/reviews/cryptogram.htm (538 words) |
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