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...distinctly Irish ritual, the wake. All of Beckett's plays are wakes for God. His desperate cosmic longings are deeply felt; but prolonged mourning, like anything else, does grow tedious. That is why Beckett is best in small doses. A brief cloudburst of tears like the one-acter, Krapp's Last Tape, is morosely refreshing, but a full-length downpour like Godot leaves one in a state of nihilistic depression...
...world's first drama occurred in the Garden of Eden with only two characters onstage, and they decided that paradise was well lost for love. To a degree, this is the same conclusion reached by a latter-day Adam and Eve in a delightful one-acter called Dear Janet Rosenberg, Dear Mr. Kooning...
...This one-acter, written by Leonard Melfi, difiers radically in feel from the other two plays. It is one further step removed from what we call naturalism and hardly seems to be taking place on earth. It is essentially not a comedy, and the language operates on a fantastical poetic level that is closer to the cosmos than the nitty-gritty of American life...
PETERBOROUGH, N.H. The Peterborough Players. When the lights go down, Peter Shaffer's characters cavort and sport their way through a people-jam in the dark in his hilarious Black Comedy. The Public Eye, another one-acter by Shaffer, follows a seemingly errant young wife...
Adaptation--Next -- Two very funny and chilling plays, both directed by Mike Nichols' brilliant ex-partner, Elaine May. The first one-acter, written by Miss May, shows the game of life as seen in terms of a TV quiz show. The second, by Terrence McNally (a perverse playwright's perverse playwright, and happily so), is about a 48-year-old man undergoing a humiliating army physical. Gabe Dell and James Coco--two of the best actor-comedians around--play the leads. At the GREENWICH MEWS THEATRE, W. 13th...