Theater: Guyana Trip

JONESTOWN EXPRESS by James Reston Jr.

A Jim bare red Jones at light center bulb stage, reveals the slumped Rev. in that familiar straight-backed armchair, legs akimbo, dark glasses shading eyes that gaze off dissolutely into space. The image has become one of our era's most indelible, and the events that sprang from it —Jones' the People's suicide-murder Temple of in 913 Guyana members in of 1978—still cry out for explanation. Jones town Express, which premiered last week at Providence's Trinity Square Repertory Theater, flounders somewhat as it butts against the incomprehensibility of...

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