Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fascinating toy to him, and he is the contented child of pop culture; yet he has a curious, steely desire to think for himself. The old sanctions of God, church, state, family, boss, work have all dropped out of his ethical vocabulary. He is a law unto himself, frenetically comic, highly individualistic, a little man of unpredictable size...
...myth of Director Mike Nichols, invulnerable up to now, has been that he could bust a comic rib with an onionskin script, but The Apple Tree is too thin for even his nimble touch. While Barbara Harris is as saucily mocking as ever, it becomes clearer with each performance that she is more of a zany caricaturist and mimic than she is an actress. She can do instant impersonations of people and moods, but except for her 1962 performance in Oh Dad, Poor Dad, she has never developed a character. In the past, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick have written...
There is no inkling in this production that Ben Jonson is not simply Shakespeare writ small. Shakespeare is like the sea; he accepts and purifies all things. But Jonson is like the tide: a cool comic moralist who spews upon the shore line all the debris of vice-infected humanity. In The Alchemist and Volpone, Jonson was a giant of comedy. Directing for the crude buffoonery characteristic of the Bard's low-comedy scenes, Irving turns him into a Shakespearean dwarf...
...Steve Kaplan's Loeb production, Gammer Gurton's Needle is a funny play, though what play it is that's funny is often unclear. Kaplan has staged a brilliantly colorful, broadly comic, visually and musically inventive production which attaches itself only loosely to what in a modernized version, is still a crude and dull play...
...Cheval's opening night drew the French Rothschild family, as well as large segments of lesser society folk right down to the cafe variety. The critics went away ecstatic. Wrote Jean Dutourd in France-Soir: "This play is charming, brilliant, tender, intelligent and of a special sort of comic turn of mind...