Word: cleverish
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Though makeshift and spotty, the play is not just one more movie-soppy, movie-safe bit of lonely hearts and flowers, or just one more cleverish game of theatrical double-dummy stage writing. It has its quite funny and its reasonably touching scenes, some nice dialogue, flashes of real theater, touches of real feeling. But it mingles thematic movement with technical bar-chinning, the capacities of an author with the commonplaces of a situation. And though it does not falsify its ending, it oversentimentalizes it. As a two-character piece, it has wasted moments and overworked effects, more changes...
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