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...LUV. Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson and Alan Arkin take a slapstick and tongue-wagging jaunt on a suspension bridge in Murray Schisgal's absurd spoof of the theater of the absurd. The hand of Mike Nichols mixes gags and sight gags with unerring skill...
...worst thing that has happened to Hanley is something that he could not have foreseen-the opening of Murray Schisgal's therapeutically hilarious Luv. Sorry-I-was-ever-born plays now sound like hollow parodies rather than dour profundities; since Luv raised its satirical whoop, playgoers are bound to lessen their self-commiserating indulgence of misery. More than ever a playwright who intends to woo his audience with some tale of woe will have to do it out of an intensely felt, intensively rendered personal experience...
...LUV, by Murray Schisgal, sends three very modern and morose souls through a slapstick, tongue-wagging, satirical inferno of cocktail-party griefs. Under Mike Nichols' brilliantly inventive direction, Actors Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson and Alan Arkin produce constant and rib-aching hilarity...
Happened In. It was Mike Nichols, the director, who put Harry up on the railing. Nichols deals in exaggerated probabilities, and his touch has made hits of all three plays he has directed so far-The Knack, Barefoot in the Park and Luv. He may be one of the more gifted and promising new directors to take his place in the American theater since Elia Kazan left Constantinople...
Nichols is particularly close with his playwrights. He insists that they be at rehearsals at all times. "The author should be your ally," he says. "You should be whomping away at the play together." Murray Schisgal, author of Luv, puts his debt to Nichols in one short and generous sentence. "Mike's contribution," he says, "has been equal to my own in making my play work." Mike's contribution was considerable...