Word: butley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Butley and Otherwise Engaged, which have been Gray's hit plays, the central figure has been a kind of witty monster of unfeeling. In Molly, feelings and emotions are not only unguarded, they are sometimes nakedly out of control. What comes as a surprise is to find Gray making a defense of lies told out of a tenderness for others: "If we didn't lie to the people we love and live with, we wouldn't be able to live with them...
...Butley. At the Park Square Moviehouse, Friday and Saturday at 7:55. With Rhinoceros...
Because Allott's role is an in-depth version of the central figure of Butley, which appeared on Broadway two years ago, and since Britain's Alan Bates played both roles with scapular authority, one fears for Kevin Conway even as one scrutinizes him. But he is up to his hazardous task. As an actor, he is not a flashy water-skier splashing off extraneous effects but a deep-sea diver of strenuous gravity who comes up with the pearl of truth...
...Butley, 5, 9:45, Women in Love, 2:45, 7:30, tonight only; Lion in Winter, 4:30, 9:30, The Ruling Class...
...Butley. The American Film Theater's version of Simon Gray's very funny play about a college professor and the way his life falls apart. On stage this was nearly the proverbial laugh a minute...