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Interiors. Harvard Square, Thursday at 12, 3:55, and 8 p.m. With Equus...
Wiprud walks onto the set again in the second play of the evening, The Private Ear, and his tremendous stage presence and energy make the play a success. Written by Peter Shaffer (of Equus fame) to be performed in tandem with The Public Eve--the last play of the trio--Ear shows a man's failure to establish a relationship with a woman he invites to his apartment for dinner...
Public Eye, Private Ear, and The Kugelmass Episode. These three short plays--the first two by Peter Shaffer of Equus fame, the third a Woody Allen quickie--will open at the Currier Fish-bowl this weekend. The first two are treatments of the old romantic triangle plot from two different angles--one witty and sophisticated, the other serious. The Kugelmass Episode is Woody Allen's tale of a CCNY professor who finds himself transported to the world of Madame Bovary. Go see it if you want to find...
Some of the protagonist's prey fare better. Though at times hobbled by accent difficulties, British Actor Peter Firth (Equus) is surprisingly convincing as the title character, a sullen, ducktailed counterboy with vague cowboy dreams of glory. TV's Hal Linden, playing Grant's stuffy suburban husband, makes some thing fresh out of a stereotype, as does Faracy. Unfortunately, these performers must share the screen with Grant and Candy Clark, who turn already hysterical women into harridans. "Filth! Filth!" Grant screams at Gortner, in one of the movie's many unwatchable moments...
...mysteries of the movie business is Hollywood's predilection for filming hopelessly stagebound Broadway hits. Some plays transfer easily to the screen, but those built around theatrical gimmicks invariably drop dead. Same Time, Next Year, like last year's Equus, never stood a chance as a movie: it is a one-joke, one-set, two-character sitcom that should be allowed to retire in peace to the nation's dinner theaters...