Word: funniest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ADAPTATION-NEXT. Elaine May directs two of last season's funniest one-acters. Adaptation, which Miss May also wrote, is the game of life staged like a television game. Next, by Terrerce McNally, is about a middle-aged man undergoing a series of humiliating pre-induction examinations...
ADAPTATION-NEXT. Elaine May directs two of last season's funniest one-acters. Adaptation, which Miss May also wrote, is the game of life staged like a television game. Next, by Terrence McNally, has James Coco in a fine performance as a middle-aged man undergoing a series of humiliating pre-induction examinations...
...Goethe (late September) and the Oxford-Cambridge Players' Twelfth Night (December). Last season, only the latter troupe attracted a large student audience to the Loeb, and their work was enthusiastically received. This year's production is directed by Jonathan Miller, Beyond the Fringe alumnus and one of the funniest men alive...
...THEATRE COMPANY of Boston opens this week with two one-act plays that collectively make up probably the funniest evening of theatre currently running in New York. The plays are Adaptation, Elaine May's version of the game of life as viewed from the perspective of a TV quiz show, and Next, Terrence McNally's sketch about a 48-year-old man undergoing a humiliating draft physical. Two actresses near and dear to the hearts of Cambridge theatregoers, Susan Channing and Joan Tolentino, will be in the cast...
...funniest things are always those which most closely approximate the truth. Or what our fantasies would like to think might be true. This fact combined with the release of the extraordinary tensions caused by the politics of our times makes David McClelland's cartoon of Nathan Pusey's childhood psychoses just fantastic...