Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Susan Slade, is a stopped clock of a comedy. Every once in a while Julie Harris or the playwright shakes the thing and it ticks off a few farcical laughs, but for most of the evening C.B.'s immobile face tells no comic time...
...showed, Alan Bates is fearfully good at transmitting menace, but as a charmer his signals are garbled. As Bates's second mate-to-be, Joanna Pettet is an indelibly enticing ingenue, but speech is her impediment. She says all the words correctly, but her avidly sincere delivery turns comic gold into lead. Poor Richard is not rich enough to afford a cast and director who do more to put the play under than over...
Twisting Hands. White's acerbic eye and listening ear allow no part of Australia's mores to go unrecorded. In Down at the Dump, he describes the funeral of the town tart with Gogolian rambunctiousness. Willy-wagtails by Moonlight is an equally authoritative (and equally comic) account of a dinner party of two couples. The dim hostess, Nora, "made a point of calling her husband's employees by first names, trying to make them part of a family which she alone, perhaps, would have liked to exist." Her more earthy guest, Eileen Wheeler, had been a school...
...preparation of the morning edition. Editors scurry about with a more purposeful air; glancing over A.P. dispatches, composing headlines, running up from the basement to report how much type has been set. And the theatre people act drunker than they are; preening themselves, performing little dances or comic bits with one another, trying to engage editors in their own brand of snappy repartee, joking together about the fatuities of the CRIMSON...
...Theatre Company of Boston gives Him a superb production under the direction of David Wheeler. Burris deBenning and Moira Wylie play the talkative roles of Him and Me with graceful assurance. The rest of the cast excels in comic parts of every description, doing full credit to Cumming's vertiginous imagination, "talking very beautifully" (as Me tells Him) in the poet's acrobatic language. Paul Benedict, a ubiquitous master of trades, is especially amusing as a drunkard, soap box orator, prude, interloper, private eye, gentleman, freak show barker, and Mussolini...