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...cartoons that Jules Feiffer syndicates to more than 100 newspapers around the globe are world crises in miniature -- angst-ridden responses by ordinary people to headline horrors and social absurdities. His plays have the same etched wit, the same arresting blend of compassion and chilly analysis and, alas for dramaturgy, the same tendency toward monologue: one of his central if unspoken themes is that people almost never speak to each other as insightfully as they speak to themselves...
...their first really honest conversation, via the telephone. Safely alone, if groping toward connection, they engage in dialogue by means of shared soliloquy. In the middle, the woman meets the man's old high school buddies -- an encounter that the lovers interpret in opposite ways and analyze to oblivion. Feiffer deftly satirizes self-awareness and communication, even while urging the need for them...
...between what he needs from a woman and what he actually gets and settles for. Yet the best scenes are among the aging buddies, alternately boastful that they know one another better than anyone else and gloomy that they no longer know one another at all. But then, in Feiffer's world, nobody really knows anybody anyway -- even himself...
ELLIOT LOVES. Mike Nichols directing, Jules Feiffer writing and two-time Tony- winner Christine Baranski acting. How wrong can you go? This tale of mid- life crisis-cum-romance is at Chicago's Goodman, but can Broadway...
WRITTEN by political cartoonist and occasional screenwriter Jules Feiffer, Knock Knock is described by its producers as "a manic farce about Joan of Arc and two other guys...