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THE questioning begins. The prosecutor, Garry, and Huggins' lawyer, Catherine Roraback of New Haven, probe the juror's attitudes-whether it is a deep-seated prejudice or an opinion formed by reading the evening paper-towards the case, the defendants, and the Panthers in general.
PAUL ZWINDEL with his second play. And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, has accomplished what another quasi-literary rising playwright. Tom Stoppard, failed to. He has emerged from his The Effect of Gamma Ray on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds success off-Broadway last season with a phenomenally entertaining tragi...
That last superlative should be toned down a bit with the reminder that, whatever Miss Reardon is or pretends to be, it is not serious theater. Paul Zwindel sidestepped the lachrymose aspects of the old maid's condition, and he placed a buoyant comic balloon in the middle of this...
Miss Reardon reaches its apotheosis as entertainment during the Stein's visit, an event which at first seems so peripheral that its very prolongation, with Fleur and Bob making repeated moves toward the door, but encountering repeated delays in departure, generates a sort of comical unlikeliness. Julie Harris has her...
OF COURSE, the Steins eventually do leave; the buoyancy of their presence, made possible by Rae Allan's Streisand-like comic timing and Bill Macy's nasal, controlled delivery, contributes joy to this spectacle of lives still tawdry and depressing, but not really worth watching if it had been limited...