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...Severed Head, by Iris Murdoch and J. B. Priestley, plays a game of musical beds with three men and three women, but it is not about sex. It is a witty, ironic, urbane, satiric, unsettling, elusive, philosophical comedy about the nature of reality...
...Miss Murdoch, from whose novel A Severed Head is adapted, does not moralize. The point of her characters' behavior is its pointlessness. The only place sleeping around gets them is into bed. Breaking all the rules merely traps them in the bondage of incessant repetition. This is inherent in their own natures. Martin, for example, is submissive to his wife, who is an older woman, a child-to-parent relationship, and protective to his mistress, who is about 20 years younger, a father-to-daughter relationship. At play's end he is repeating his submissive role...
...Murdoch Italian Girl...
...Murdoch Unicorn...
...ITALIAN GIRL, by Iris Murdoch. Another unsteady Murdoch heroine walks the thin line between old rules and new temptations. She wavers, of course, to give the author another opportunity to pit human emotions against moral tradition...