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Cinders Play by Janusz Glowacki. Translated by Christina Paul. Directed by John Madden.

The place is a reform school somewhere - ''not that far from Warsaw.'' The inmates are serving time for lawbreaking of various kinds.

The officials are the familiar time-servers of communist totalitarianism.

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A hip, hard-driving movie director, his eye on a Western film festival prize, arrives at the institution to make a documentary about the production of ''Cinderella'' the girls are rehearsing.

And so Polish emigre writer Janusz Glowacki has all the realistic and metaphorical elements for ''Cinders,'' which is having its American premiere at the Public Theater/LuEsther Hall.

Amid the comings and goings of rehearsals and the mundane reformatory routine, Glowacki concentrates on four central figures. They are the cynically ambitious director himself, the well-meaning but irresolute principal of the insti