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...includes his The Zoo Story and Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape. Other holdovers: the Brecht-Weill-Blitzstein Threepenny Opera, heading toward its 2,300th performance; The Connection, a now-famed pad full of Method hipsters seeking to prove that the opiate of the people is heroin after all; and Little Mary Sunshine, a boffo operetta satirizing the Kerny, Frimlous past. Among worthy revivals, there is a superlative production of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler and a welcome reprise of Epitaph for George Dillon by John Osborne and Anthony Creighton...
...make things up." He thinks of life as a campaign in which he has won certain medals, all of which he insists on explaining. Duc has been decorated for being in and out of Communism (like Author Vailland), in the French underground, and on and off heroin. Women call for special citations. The Hemingway heroine derives from the spectral ladies of Poe. The sleeping bag is a kind of tomb. In a catatonic trance, Lucie does Duc's bidding. "Am I to undress? That's what I came for. Isn't that what you brought...
...Write My Epitaph (Columbia). The heroine (Shelley Winters) is on heroin. "Louie, please!" she gasps. "I need a fix! Ya gotta gimme a fix!" In this picture, unhappily, the story as well as the heroine needs a shot in the arm. Based on Novelist Willard Motley's sequel to Knock on Any Door (TIME, March 14, 1949), which made a substantial score as a Hollywood thriller, Epitaph is just a scummy rescrape of the sidewalks of Chicago...
...Still fresh and unwilted by the heat are Little Mary Sunshine, a crisp, straight-faced spoof of the Grand Old Operettas; The Balcony, Jean Genet's surrealist universe ensconced in a brothel; The Connection, a pad full of Pirandelloish characters waiting, not for Godot, but the heroin fix; and a neat double dose of disenchantment-Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, in which a defeated, Proust-like writer plays back his own past, on the same bill with Edward Albee's Zoo Story, which stars a lonely beatnik trying to communicate with an awful square...
...survivors are headed by Little Mary Sunshine, a boffo operetta satirizing the Kern-y, Friml-ous past; The Balcony, Jean Genet's world view through a brothel window; The Connection, a pad full of hipsters seeking to prove that the opiate of the people is heroin after all; and a skillfully acted double bill of disenchantment: Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, in which a beaten and lonely ex-writer poignantly and often amusingly grovels in his past, paired with Edward Albee's Zoo Story, in which a desperately lonely beatnik attempts the hopeless, tragicomic...