'Back to Back' Opens At Egyptian Nov. 19 "Back to Back," a play about friendship and suryival in Vietnam and winner of the first Utah Playwriting Conference Confe-rence at Sundance, will be presented by the Salt Lake Acting Company at Park City's Egyptian Theater on Thursday, November 19 and Saturday, November 21, at 8 p.m. Written and directed by Al Brown, the play is a comedy about two Marines and their human experiences while surviving in a fox hole. "Variety" commented on its production in Seattle, Wash., earlier this year: "The comedy is based on the virtual Laurel and Hardy characters of the pair, stuck in a dugout near a front line, idling away their time and trying to forget the possibility possibi-lity of an enemy attack." Playwright Al Brown was born in Philadelphia and joined the Marines when he was 18. In 1965, he was sent to Vietnam -, but it wasn't until 1979 that he decided to write a play about it. After seeing movies about Viet nam and disagreeing with their emphasis on violence, he decided, "that wasn't the way the war was for me, and I felt for the first time in a long while the need to talk about Vietnam. ..We were still people. There were still long boring days. We still got up in the morning and went to bed at night. We weren't suddenly animals just because we had landed in Vietnam. ..My play is my two cents about the whole thing." "Back to Back" opened in March, 1981. at The Empty Space Theater in Seattle and played in Salt Lake City during May. The "Seattle Post-Intelligencer" called it. "As fresh and compelling as anything in town," and noted ;A1 Brown as, "One of the stage's most -promising new writers." The Park City production is presented by Park City Performances. Tickets are $3.50 for PCP members; $5 for non-members. For ticket information and reservations, reservat-ions, phone: 649-9371.