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'Idiot Savant' at Public Theater odd, not idiotic

Willem Dafoe may be a movie star to most of the world. As a founding member of the Wooster Group, however, he was a legendary force here in experimental theater since the '70s. In "Idiot Savant," he joins another avant-garde legend, Richard Foreman, in one of Foreman's hallucinatory, multiperspective collages that explores, well, the frustrating magic of words, the inevitability of confusion and...

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