Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Strange Interlude, by Eugene O'Neill, puts its characters on a kind of verbal couch for 4½ hours, but the amateur psychoanalyzing currently seems both comic and a trifle freudulent. Star Geraldine Page rings as true as 14 carats...
Beyond the Fringe. Recipient of a rarely accorded Special Citation from the New York Drama Critics Circle, Beyond the Fringe is the finest revue in years. Four antic and articulate young Englishmen rip the comic stuffing out of nuclear defense, Shakespearean theatrics, and glibly patronizing...
Heavens Above! bears the hallmark of the Boulting Brothers, whose I'm All Right, Jack gave Sellers his alltime juiciest part. It is a collage of comic bits pasted together with satire: Sellers walking into an open grave in a rainstorm, Sellers munching dog biscuits along with his sherry, a train compartment full of clerics looking startled when "the last supper" is announced in the dining car ahead...
...avarice, with curtsying dances and puckish pratfalls, Halloween masks and wopsical hats. It is more a costume ball than a play, and it stresses what is sheen-deep in Molière's wit rather than what is skinflinty. Still, in a glancing way, the master French comic moralist's point does get made-that a sin is called deadly because it deadens. Mock-Hero Harpagon (Hume Cronyn) is dead to his children's hope of love, dead to his servants' grievances, dead to any generous stirrings of heart or mind. He counts the world well...
While granted but a few lines, Thomas Oxnard as the servant is quite equal to the leads in comic skill. His dead-pan contrasts sharply with the gyrations of his employers, practically guaranteeing a laugh every time he opens his mouth...