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'J.B.': Rorschach's Timely but Tedious Job

By Nelson Pressley
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 19, 2001; Page C09
In the aftermath of last week's terrorism, religious figures appeared on TV toexplain where God was in all of this. At the same time, the age-old issue was being addressed theatrically as Rorschach Theatre opened its revival last weekend of Archibald MacLeish's 1958 play "J.B.," the Pulitzer- and Tony-winning modernization (in verse) of the Book of Job.
The timing is obviously accidental, as was the opening of "Equus" at the Olney Theatre Center a few days after the shootings at Columbine High School two years ago (the unfathomable violence of disturbed teenage boys being a common theme at that moment). Still, MacLeish's play is built for troubled times. It has a post-nuclear awareness, listing Dresden and Hiroshima among mankind's grievous sufferings -- God's failings, according to the play's Devil figure. Parts of the sometimes angry, sometimes remote "J.B." could be harrowing viewing right now. It may be a mercy that in Rorschach's scattered production, it's not.
This is only Rorschach's fifth show, and already the young company has established two trademarks: found spaces and tough old plays (it introduced itself to the world with Eugene O'Neill's "The Hairy Ape"). "J.B." is being produced at the Millennium Arts Center, a former school just off South Capitol Street in Southwest Washington. T