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...trying "to find reality" through acting, has graduated from $200 underground films to a genuine Hollywood talk-on. She is also enjoying her most stunning success to date-undulating on the floor of off-Off Broadway's Cafe La Mama as the hopefully seductive heroine of a one-acter called The Love Lecture. "You give your all, and they dig it," said Baby Jane. "You can't play a part without facing yourself and communicating." "It's really groovy," agreed her leading man, "all that rolling around onstage together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 11, 1967 | 8/11/1967 | See Source »

BLACK COMEDY is a slam-bang comedy-literally. The humor of Peter Shaffer's one-acter springs more from body English than feats of wit. It is based on a single conceit -agile actors in a blaze of lights behave and misbehave, bump and reel, as if in total darkness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Time Listings: Apr. 21, 1967 | 4/21/1967 | See Source »

BLACK COMEDY is a slambang comedy-literally. The humor of Peter Shaffer's one-acter springs more from body English than feats of wit. It is based on a single conceit-agile actors in a blaze of lights behave and misbehave, bump and reel, as if in total darkness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Apr. 14, 1967 | 4/14/1967 | See Source »

BLACK COMEDY is a slam-bang comedy-literally. The humor of Peter Shaffer's one-acter springs more from body English than feats of wit. It is based on a single conceit - watching agile actors in a blaze of lights behave and misbehave, bump and reel, as if in total darkness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Apr. 7, 1967 | 4/7/1967 | See Source »

...first one-acter is almost a Broad way in joke. Since Marat/Sade accustomed audiences to the sight of a man's naked backside, what are the prospects for a frontal confrontation? A deadserious playwright (George Grizzard) with integrity fever wants to stage precisely that. In the opening scene of his play, a man will be offstage in the bathroom brushing his teeth. His wife, in the adjoining bedroom, calls out something. Suddenly the man appears, stark naked, toothbrush in hand, saying, "You know I can't hear you when the water's running." According to the playwright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Ticker-Tape Blizzard of Fun | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

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