Word: one-act
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...reads lips so fluently that some classmates are unaware of his deafness. Hugely versatile, Jeffrey was a state winner in the Science Talent Search for his experiment on fast evaporation, won a Carnegie Tech creative-writing prize for an essay on Salinger and Kafka, a national prize for a one-act play, and a letter for wrestling. He will major in chemistry at Oberlin...
...pair of original one-act plays now at the Experimental Theatre, two freshmen have put some interesting characters in front of two mirrors of very different curvatures and come up with several skillful distortions...
...PRIVATE EAR and THE PUBLIC EYE are two sharply observed but compassionate one-act comedies - about a bashful boy who finds that his chosen Venus is just another dumb blonde, and a brash detective who chews macaroons and Brazil nuts and sweetly seasons a marriage that is stewing in acrid juices...
...PRIVATE EAR and THE PUBLIC EYE are two sharply observed but compassionate one-act comedies about a bashful boy who finds that his chosen Venus is just an other dumb blonde, and a brash detective who chews macaroons and Brazil nuts and sweetly seasons a marriage that is stewing in acrid juices...
Both of Peter Shaffer's new one-act comedies, The Private Ear and The Public Eye, are failures in spite of generally good performances and the direction of Peter Wood. The Private Ear fails because it is a blatantly uninteresting and unfunny play. The Public Eye fails, though less completely, because it bungles its chance to exploit an amusing situation and a potentially fascinating trio of characters...