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SQUARE IN THE EYE. Playwright Jack Gelber gives a satirical spin to the contemporary kaleidoscope of marriage, egos, careerism, the cults of surgery and psychoanalysis, and the cosmeticians of the death industry. The play is suffused with moral pathos, even while it is being abrasively funny...
SQUARE IN THE EYE. Playwright Jack Gelber fires a satirical stream of tracer bullets into the marital war of the egos, careerism, the cults of surgery and psychoanalysis, and the cosmeticians of death industry. A theatrical kaleidoscope, the play is suffused with moral pathos-even while it is being Abrasively funny...
Square in the Eye. After exploring the lower depths of drug addiction in The Connection, and splashing a dramatic canvas with jesting surrealistic damnation in The Apple, Playwright Jack Gelber now fires a stream of satirical tracer bullets into contemporary marriage, careerism, the worshipful cults of surgery and psychoanalysis, and the costly cosmeticians of the death industry. Though his mind is finer than his means, Gelber is an intellectual twister and swinger with a phantasmagorial sense of the present...
...Although Gelber is better at making points than creating people, his concern is with the autotelic personality whose life is as self-contained as a work of art, and who regards all other lives around him as tubes of paint to be squeezed onto his emotional self-portrait. In consequence, the sex battle becomes a war of egos. But Gelber's hero is concerned about being self-concerned, feels guilty about not feeling guilty, and this suffuses the play with moral pathos-even while it is being abrasively funny...
...Jack Gelber's first play, The Connection, was set half a league to hellward of the boundary where bohemianism shades into crime and insanity. Its heroes were heroin addicts, its dialogue had the tape-recorder hiss of genuine desperation, and the result was a 32-month run off-Broadway. Gelber's first novel seemingly starts off to make that same scene. Marijuana smoke curls up from the pages; the characters are mostly Greenwich Village idiots. But though the chief idiot, Manny Fells, has lowered himself by his own bootstraps into the right kind of roach-ridden Manhattan loft...