Word: isn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...author of the award-winning play "Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad" said it's important for a playwright to make all efforts to avoid autobiography, since it isn't possible to recreate a physical likeness on the stage...
THIS IS A MOVIE with bad guys and good guys, bad forces and good forces, and it isn't tough to tell who's who. What's tough is to try to figure out why this film actually exists...
...lacks a single good chase scene. It fails as a high-tech extravaganza because the only impressive special effect makes the heroine's skirt blow up. And if it's a film about the newest hunk o' celluloid, there has got to be some necking, at least, but there isn...
...Christopher Durang. If you don't want to blame the nuttiness of his comical concoction on the three years he spent in Dunster House, you can certainly pin it on grad school at Yale. That leaves open, however, the question of the play's underlying seriousness. For Beyond Therapy isn't just a comedy, though it seems like it should be. Through the words of his character Mrs. Wallace, Durang diagnoses his own problem in this play: he "needs to know what he wants...
...shrink for you. She helps Bob, Bruce's lover, when he is suicidally upset with Bruce for seeing a woman (Prudence); she helps them all in the end, if they can be helped, with her "I'm OK, you're OK" philosophy. Mrs. Wallace is wacky but hers isn't the real problem. The problem is that Beyond Therapy is too funny to be serious, and too serious to be funny...