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Written for the screen by Albert Innaurato (Gemini), one of the most gifted young U.S. playwrights, Verna is both a comic and a sorrowful account of a girl's peculiar heroism. The humor can be found in Innaurato's sassy dialogue, which gives new resonance to the lingo of '40s movies, and in the many vintage U.S.O. routines that dot the film's narrative. Underneath the surface wit is Innaurato's portrait of Verna's aching loneliness and cultural malaise. When Verna, for the sake of her nonexistent career, jilts an Army captain whom...
Gemini. Albert Innaurato's rollicking ethnic comedy is savory and Saroyanesque. It is also rich in moments of bitter and abrasive truths that seem, at times, searingly unbearable...
...Albert Innaurato's sensibility operating from a totally different angle of vision, one needs to attend his one-acter The Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie, which is part of a double bill called Monsters at off-Broadway's Astor Place Theater. In contrast to Gemini, Blimpie is as joyous as a bleeding welt. It is a lacerating look at adolescence from the freakish vantage point of a boy of 14 who weighs...
...ALBERT INNAURATO...
...most promising young dramatists all seem to fall within the confines of middling merit. What knits some recent playwrights together more excitingly than their works is a sense that they are stage animals prowling their natural and necessary habitat. One such prowling indigene is Albert Innaurato...