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Stop, You're Killing Me is an apt title for a bloodstained package of three one-act plays by James Leo Herlihy, presented by the Theater Company of Boston. The title's aptness lies not only in its suggestion of homicide, but humor-each of the three is laughing on the outside while dying on the inside...
Negro Ensemble Company--A fine company tries its hands at three new one-act plays. At ST. MARKS PLAY-HOUSE, 133 Second...
...PROGRAM notes accompanying the two one-act plays that opened at the Loeb last night sounded forbiddingly self-serious. "Because of certain ideological predilections on the part of the director," one section read, "much of the technical work not listed was done by the cast." My god, I thought, if they're all willing to do that much work, what will they expect from an audience? At worst they would have us changing sets, at best, we might be forced into some sort of soul-baring dialectic. Feeling vaguely exhausted before the plays began, I just wanted to be left...
Menotti scored most of the 70-minute one-act opera in his familiar, simple melodic style, interspersed with eerie electronic sounds. The composer regards the contrast between traditional musicality and switched-on sound in The Globolinks as a kind of autobiographical parody of his own position in the arts. "Schoffer and Nikolais are the children of this generation," says Menotti. "Theirs is the world of mechanized art; mine is still the world of art as dictated by human emotion." In The Globolinks, he has proved that the twain can sometimes meet...
SOME PEOPLE over at Quincy House have pulled a neat stunt this week. They have produced two one-act plays, but somehow ended up with about five-sixths of one one-acter. I guess it shows a certain amount of good old American ingenuity on their part, but it also makes for an unfortunately disturbing evening of theatre...