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Thursday, October 9 NET PLAYHOUSE (NET, 8:30-10 p.m.). Tennessee Williams' one-act play, Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (which later became his three-act allegory, Camino Real) stars Martin Sheen as Kilroy, Lotte Lenya as the Gypsy, Hurd Hatfield as Jacques Casanova and Carrie Nye as Marguerite Gautier. Repeat...
...THEATRE COMPANY of Boston opens this week with two one-act plays that collectively make up probably the funniest evening of theatre currently running in New York. The plays are Adaptation, Elaine May's version of the game of life as viewed from the perspective of a TV quiz show, and Next, Terrence McNally's sketch about a 48-year-old man undergoing a humiliating draft physical. Two actresses near and dear to the hearts of Cambridge theatregoers, Susan Channing and Joan Tolentino, will be in the cast...
Besides a batch of one-act plays, mostly light "vaudevilles," Chekhov wrote a total of nine full-evening, four act plays. Of the first two, penned when he was 18, we know only the titles: The Fatherless, and Laugh It Off If You Can. At 21, he wrote the sprawling but remarkable Platonov, which turned up only long after his death, in the Soviet period. In his late twenties, he turned out Ivanov, a flawed but great and vastly underrated work capable of packing a tremendous wallop in performance; and the tentative, transitional The Wood Demon, which later also provided...
STOP, YOU'RE KILLING ME is an evening of three slightly savage and humorous one-act plays by Novelist James Leo Herlihy, performed ably by the Theater Company of Boston...
STOP, YOU'RE KILLING ME is an apt title for a slightly 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 in its humor as well-each of the three is laughing on the outside while dying on the inside. And the company seems to know exactly what the dark and savage satirist is laughing about...