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REAL PEOPLE by Alison Lurie. 180 pages. Random House...
...previous novels, Love and Friendship, The Nowhere City and Imaginary Friends, Alison Lurie has earned a reputation as a dry satirist by preying on such vulnerable chickens as the academic life, extramarital affairs, Los Angeles as nightmare, sociology as pseudo science, and flying-saucer cultism as false religion. As a subject, Miss Lurie's minor lady writer is not exactly a meal-in-itself, although the author again demonstrates her special skill at killing swiftly, cleanly and coldbloodedly...
...Alison Baxter...
...rely entirely on a rapid flow of stage business to present his version of Porter. Jory keeps Marion Killinger pacing the stage with vicious energy, leaping onto tables, sprawling on the floor. He explains the man's anger with a series of visual and auditory irritations--the impassivity of Alison (Karen Grassle) at the ironing board, the obnoxious clang of evening bells, the black and white tedium of a litter of Sunday newspapers, constant courteous offers...
...that way. For instance, the script calls for Porter to kick a cistern, then sit and play it like a Bongo in the second act. Jory has junked that and instead has Jimmy playing a complex jazz solo with plates and glasses on the bleak little tea table, as Alison announces that she's going out with her friend Helena. "That's not a direction," Porter replies in perfect syncopation, "that's an affliction...