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This performance, put on by the madcap AAA Players, tells the story of a thirty-year-old loser whose life changes after meeting a beautiful Brazilian. Erotic pastries are implicated in the affair. Through May 8. Tickets $5 General, $4 Harvard Students (2 per I.D.), $3 Adams House residents. 7:30 p.m. Adams House Pool Theatre...
...soon to die. Deciding to keep his wife from worry, he secretively visits doctor after doctor, arousing his wife’s suspicion that he is having an affair. Soon, she has put a private detective on his trail who only has eyes for Cecile and the dignified yet madcap hilarity inherent in a French love triangle commences. Tickets $7.50. 5:30, 7:30, 9:30 p.m. Brattle Theatre...
...ribaldry, foul language and madcap tone didn’t deter many—the book rushed him to the most elite sector of the literary world soon after its publication and won the respect of countless other innovative writers, including Smith herself...
Such a buffet of contemptibility can work--see Curb Your Enthusiasm--with a good, mature cast. Coupling's, like so many post-Friends ensembles, is just smirky thirtysomething kids with $100 haircuts. The show does have a touch for madcap-farce plots based on lies and miscommunications, even if they're a bit farfetched. (The pilot, for instance, requires that you believe the stalls in a women's bathroom are soundproof.) At times you see, as on a disappointing date, the sophisticated adult Coupling could have become. Instead, it sidles up to us in its pleated Dockers, asking lamely...
...none of these jobs did he find quite the same madcap fraternity which had made him so happy at the Lampoon. Meyer told Owen in 2000 that his job at “Saturday Night Live” had been “just a mismatch, although I didn’t realize it at the time...