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...GRAVE UNDERTAKING by LLOYD GOLD...
...Grave Undertaking, which is having its premiere at Princeton's McCarter Theater, has a few holes too, for it is the first full-length effort of a young writer. At 25, Lloyd Gold shows a genuine feel for drama and the daring to tackle a large theme-death...
...Grave Undertaking is an indictment of God. If God is good, how can he permit the death of a young innocent? If he does not exist, death can only be a convocation of worms. This line of reasoning is not new; it runs through dramatic literature from Euripides to Ionesco- life is a dirty joke. But themes do not a playwright make. A grip on the dramatic imagination does, and Gold shows every sign of that. Born in Georgia, he has spent two summers at the Edward Albee Foundation at Montauk on Long Island, N.Y. It will not come...
Lumet was trying for too many effects here--a sheen of high farce, an underpinning of grave pathos, and a focus on local color and American style. As in Serpico, he was trying to capture New York. He was also trying, with the groovy relevance of a mid-60's liberal, to make a trendy statement about bad cops, good robbers, Watergate and Vietnam. But he couldn't control his techniques. He cut so flippantly from one to the other--a laugh here, a sob there--that he destroyed the thoughtful consistency that would have elicited emotional response...
...steep slope to the burial place every day last week. Women left flowers, young peasants took photographs, priests led small groups in prayer. None of the 100 policemen occupying the town-"the Spanish," residents called them-dared remove the red, white and green Basque flag that covered the rocky grave...