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Stacy is 18, a high school senior in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. Now she pulls on blue jeans, a sports shirt, and ties her curly hair back with a scarf. She wears a tiny teardrop ring to show that she is engaged, but her fiance is not making...
Laskey Bell was studious, quiet; his father jeeringly called him a "clerk," and that's what he became--a clerk in the Osborne Lumber Company, jeered at there by his boss Eddie Osborne because he blushed at the racy calendars Osborne hung on the wall of the office they both...
In Naked, the secret seems to lie with a disconsolate governess (Fran Brill). A child in her care has dropped to its death from a terrace. As a result she loses her job and her fiance, and attempts suicide.
A "human interest" newspaper account of her plight brings other characters scur rying. An aging writer (Larkin Ford) thinks the governess's story might make a good plot for his next novel. Her ex-fiance (Lucien Zabielski) throws himself at her feet in the belief that she tried to...
Brill is affecting as the governess, Gould radiates sensual magnetism as her employer lover, and Zabielski is ardent and elegant as the ex-fiance. But the dry winy brilliance of Pirandello dominates the evening. He carved out the themes of loneliness, absurdity and alienation, and in the 41 years since...