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...second half of the program, Unnatural Acts, is billed as an experience in "total" theater and, while it isn't quite as total as all that, it is an hour of funny, raucous burlesque. The four performers, Benson, Driscoll, DruMarkle and Peter Kovner, race hysterically around the stage in baggy, decorated long johns. The skits are shorter and faster paced than the ones in Beyond Words, and the humor here is largely verbal. The performers in the second half of the show seem possessed by a manic energy and a keen sense of the absurdity potential in any situation...
Businessmen Harvey Klaris and Richard Kovner, both 33, say that their country club offers an alternative for people who want to mix without pressure to make an instant connection, as in a singles bar. But their approach seems to generate its own pressure. One staffer observes: "People come together like this because they're lonely. The singles business is a sad business...
...expression of an unhappy clowns, accented by somebody's skilful touch, a tinfoil tear passed on her cheek. Her graceful movements and the delicacy of her bright eye catch interest even when the center of dramatic attention in elsewhere. Her partner Pozzo is played by big, loud, ruddy Peter Kovner, who generates most of whatever energy comes on stage. Barbara Fleischmann's Gogo ranges from the ethereal distance of a Picasso saltimbanque to the pained goggling of a suicidal gypsy...