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...GEORGES FEYDEAU were alive today, he would probably be writing television sitcoms. The twisted logic and naive misunderstandings that compromise Please Don't Walk Around in the Nude are characteristic of much of what passes for prime-time entertainment these days. All of which is not to belittle Feydeau's genius; the underlying themes he treats are somewhat loftier than what one encounters on the average episode of "Three's Company." And, of course, Feydeau did it first...
...like a coup to the producers. But Timothy, who virtually patented adolescent winsomeness in The Last Picture Show, has yet to mature as an actor. As the stern father, he is all jutting chin and squints and false heartiness; he frets and preens like the jeune premier in a Feydeau farce. To say that Sam Bottoms is not James Dean is to say that a Big Mac is no Chateaubriand. There are no secrets, no demons in Sam's face; there is no beauty...
Finally, Ashton claims that "Aeschylus and Sheridan, Feydeau and Joe Orton are ill-assorted companions"; this is nonsense, as anyone familiar with theatrical repertory knows. The ART season will include Shakespeare and Feiffer, Beckett and Beaumarchais; the Blaridge productions are, I think, similarly well-chosen. To follow the course of specialization Ashton suggests would, over the length of a season, bore the actors almost as much as the audience, and destroy the whole purpose for which the company was started...
Ontario's Niagara-on-the-Lake Shaw Festival is opening with an international flourish, offering not only Shaw but also Chekhov and French Farceur Georges Feydeau's A Flea in Her Ear. Herewith, an account of the first...
...garage. He objects to a mobile home on the grounds that it would be "too permanent." Their daughter is a nude, neurotic recluse, hidden in the recesses of the house, who only communicates, facially, via a television set. Scads of characters wander in and out of this quasi-Feydeau sweet-bitter farce...