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From a technical standpoint, Laws is uneven. While everyone is enthusiastic (the orchestra frequently overly so), Ivan Orton as Bobby, Marcie Goldstein as Laura Vue, his Law Review president girlfriend, and Rich Friedman as Professor Killer stand out as the real actors in the group. Professor Herwitz does a fine job playing himself as the Hollywood Squares emcee, as does America Lou Fackler in a sequence about the Mr. Junior Associate Pageant...
THEATER CRITICS HAVE found it rewarding recently to bemoan the lack of innovative, intriguing, entertaining, or even humorous dramatic productions. Unfortunately, Dunster House's production of Joe Orton's What the Butler Sawdoes nothing to challenge this prevalent conception of the state of contemporary theater...
WHAT THE BUTLER SAW, by Joe Orton. "Zany sex farce in a psychiatrist clinic where doctors and patients lost their sanity and clothes." I didn't know that CRP had gotten around to those, but I guess nothing is sacred any more. Tonight, tomorrow, Saturday and next weekend, 8:30 p.m. at Dunster House...
Loot looks like an unlikely hybrid of the Marx Brothers, Agatha Christie and a training film for the Mattachine Society. Narizzano has directed the bad taste in bad taste, clumsily camping it up at every opportunity, blunting Orton's coruscating wit. That this comes through at all is owing less to Narizzano than to the play's admirable resiliency...
Logic is lampooned, insanity triumphant in Orton's language, which is preserved here in reasonable facsimile. Miss Remick, dolled up to look like a prize in a shooting gallery, is calculating and amusing. Attenborough and O'Shea are nothing short of hilarious. With puffy face and popping raisin eyes, Attenborough looks like a hot cross bun impaled on a rag mop as he continually cross-examines the befuddled O'Shea. During an interval in the questioning, Attenborough boasts that it was he who solved the notorious riddle of "the limbless girl killer." "Who'd want...