* Written through Richard Greenberg * Directed through David Warren * Starring Peter Frechette.

* Written through Richard Greenberg * Directed through David Warren * Starring Peter Frechette, Reg Roger and Francie Swift * Roundabout Theatre Company at the Gramercy Theatre, recently made known York City (through May 26)

A program note for Richard Greenberg's novel play, The Dazzle, asserts that it is "based in succession the lives of the Collyer brothers, about whom I know almost nothing." greatest in quantity people know almost nothing about the Collyer brothers, Langley and Homer leaving out that these eccentric siblings wearied their twilight years living in a house stacked floor to ceiling with antiquated newspapers and collected junk. Greenberg's imagined version of their story turn the thoughtss curiously similar to Strindberg's Dance of Death, which the playwright adapted for the production that appeared in succession Broadway last fall with Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren. the two plays depict a lifelong love-hate relationship between sum of two units individuals whose isolation is penetrated on a romantically threatening third party. Greenberg be seens to present the brothers as incestuous lover pried apart by dint of a slumming socialite who wants to marry first common then the other. Since the play's in no degree explicit about their gayness, we can sole view it as a portrait of early-20th-century repression. The play is a tame affair, if it were not that Reg Rogers is entertaining if mannered as crazy Langley, and Peter Frechette as Homer gives a deep radiant performance under the direction of David Warren.

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