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...upon the "harmonious presence" of all the values, a lower one-such as man's duty to help propagate the race-could be excluded temporarily for the sake of a higher one. This theologian believes that the contraceptive pills, like rhythm, do not interfere with the sacred char acter of the marital act, although mechanical birth-control devices...
...quit while it was ahead, it wouldn't have been an especially good play, but it certainly wouldn't have been an especially bad one. Which, unfortunately, it is. Ron Levin's forty-minute one-acter gives signs, at first, of turning into a quietly amusing comedy. But toward the end, which is close enough to the beginning to make abrupt changes disconcerting, the play becomes heavily philosophical, expiring with a great cry of hoarse, straight-from-the-soul spiritual agony...
...Broadway's most durable current hits, once wrote a play called Aubade. But he is not the sort of fellow who would make that mistake twice. His middle period, when he was about 21 a few months back, was notable for a three-acter called On the Runway of Life You Never Know What's Coming Off Next, a play that unfortunately contained its entire essence in the title and was never professionally produced. But now Kopit has prepared a new script for production next month off-Broadway, and Dad-wise he is only half a dozen picas...
...life now, but so far this season, things have been nearly as disappointing off Broadway as on. There are two interesting original works, Michael Shurtleff's Call Me By My Rightful Name, a fresh, modest piece about a triangle of misfits, and Edward Albee's one-acter, The American Dream, a somber and surrealistic situation comedy deploring the loss of values in U.S. life. Albee is also represented in a downtown double bill of disenchantment that includes his The Zoo Story and Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape...
There are new signs of life now, but so far this season, things have been nearly as disappointing off Broadway as on. There is one impressive original work, Edward Albee's one-acter, The American Dream, a somber and surrealistic situation comedy deploring the loss of values in U.S. life. Albee is also represented in a downtown double bill of disenchantment that includes his The Zoo Story and Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape. Other holdovers: the Brecht-Weill-Blitzstein Threepenny Opera, heading toward its 2,300th performance; The Connection, a now-famed pad full...