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This is a first novel by a playwright with a considerable off-Broadway reception (The Prodigal, Gallows Humor) and a recent on-Broadway flop (Lorenzo) to his credit. In it, Richardson plays hide-and-seek with the questions of freedom, reality and life's purpose. Despite the author's overfondness for obscure-and sometimes misspelled-words, such as lachrymator, ecdysize, catasta, edacious and vibrissae,* Filmore's wide-eyed discovery that stone walls do not a prison make has some fine moments of upside-down humor. When his rollicking stay behind bars is ended by an untimely parole...
...Lorenzo, a four-performance fatality, marked the uptown debut of Off-Broadway's highly promising Jack (The Prodigal) Richardson, but his play glutted the Broadway commodity exchange with pretentious bosh delivered in bloated rhetoric. A Renaissance acting troupe caught in the crossfire of a small war in north Italy provided the forum for a general, kinesthetically acted by Fritz Weaver, and an actor, lushly hammed by Alfred Drake, to debate the play's theme, which was either the futility of war and the durability of art or the futility of art and the durability of war, playgoer...
...length play, dealing with a marriage problem (Oct. 13). Author of The Zoo Story, The American Dream, and The Death of Bessie Smith, Albee is the most talked-about young American playwright. The most promising young American playwright is probably Jack Richardson (The Prodigal, Gallows Humor), whose new play Lorenzo will star Alfred Drake in the story of a roving actor who finds himself involved in a blood feud between two towns and discovers that he cannot remain morally uncommitted (February). Novelist...
...Vatican. Pius refused the pension offered him by the Italian government, and settled down to live in St. Peter's as the "Prisoner of the Vatican." He died, embittered by his political failures, in 1878. When his coffin was carried to a final resting place at San Lorenzo fuori le Mura three years later, anticlerical Romans tossed mud at the mourners, unsuccessfully tried to seize the remains and dump them in the Tiber...
ANTHONY DE LORENZO Detroit...