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...TIGER MAKES OUT. From the brittle material of his off-Broadway play, The Tiger, Murray Schisgal has fashioned a cinematic cornucopia filled with enough laughs to supply an entire season of TV comedies...
...into the little Everymen of Beckett. In his American debut, British Playwright Tom Stoppard, 30, offers an agile, witty play that snaps with verbal acrobatics and precisely choreographed dances of the mind, while coming heart-beat close to the pity and terror of mortality. In the title roles, Brian Murray and John Wood are phenomenal, and Derek Goldby's direction has tensile strength...
...TIGER MAKES OUT. From the brittle material of his off-Broadway play, The Tiger, Murray Schisgal has fashioned a cinematic cornucopia filled with enough laughs to supply an entire season of TV comedies...
...precision point. Nonetheless, a play that rides on words as heavily as does R. and G. ought to have rid itself of some. Even the tensile strength of Derek Goldby's direction cannot keep segments of the drama from dialogyness. There is nothing logy about Brian Murray and John Wood in the taxing title roles. Every shifting breeze of the play's moods crosses their faces: they can summon up anxiety, false courage, utter bafflement, and honest fear with a flick of the lip, or a twist of the torso. They give the play's mind...
...Tiger Makes Out is a comedy, but the jokes, and laughs, are small ones. Author Murray Schisgal (he wrote Luv) likes to stretch situations that are, as they say, "all too real" and draw smiles with the resulting absurdities. His favorite device is a rapid trade of cliches by people quite oblivious to their banality...