Word: feiffer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LITTLE MURDERS takes place in an almost psychotic New York milieu of impending violence. The plot is to get the passive fiance to marry the all-American daughter of a middle-class family, but the point is social satire that brings treacherously light-hearted laughter, despite Jules Feiffer's attempt at the blackest of comedies...
THREE SUMMERSONGS are three one-acters, including Jules Feiffer's The Unexpurgated Memoirs of Bernard Mergen-deiler, The Nine O'Clock Mail, a comic study of obsession with the U.S. Post Office by Howard Sackler (The Great White Hope), and Slawomir Mrozek's Out at Sea, a parody on Polish politics. Craft Experimental Theater, Brookline, Mass. Through...
...format of Oh! Calcutta! is rather like that of short short stories and cartoons strung together in the revue fashion of a supper-club show. Though the program does not say who wrote what, the playwrights include Samuel Beckett, Dan Greenburg, Jules Feiffer, John Lennon, Leonard Melfi, Sam Shepard, Tynan himself, and others. Their playlets will doubtless enhance their royalties if not their reputations...
LIKE Little Murders, 1776 has come at just the right time to make a go of it. This musical about the writing of the Declaration of Independence is perfect for those who, unlike Feiffer's audiences, want to have faith restored in those good old American virtues that made this country great. Unfortunately, that's about all anyone could like about 1776, which is sort of an extra-large Hallmark Hall of Fame littered with a few drab songs and some jokes Ben Franklin tells about Thomas Jefferson's six life. Really, the best that can be said about this...
...earns less than ten thousand a year Freedom!" But ultimately the family discovers that the only sanity left to them is sticking a rifle out their apartment window and joining in the blood bath. Director Alan Arkin has staged all this with the frenzy and craziness we associate with Feiffer's art work, and his cast is perfect--daffy and ludicrous, with enough of a foothold in reality to render the whole thing at once hilarious and frightening...