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Married. Joan Hackett, 30, rising Broadway comedienne (Peterpat), currently cast as Dottie Renfrew, a Bostonian of uncertain virtue, in the upcoming film version of Mary McCarthy's The Group; and Richard Mulligan, 33, her leading man; he for the second time; in Manhattan...
...Broadway PETERPAT, by Enid Rudd. In olden days, man fought Tyrannosaurus rex; nowadays he battles Tyrannosaurus regina-his wife...
...Broadway PETERPAT, by Enid Rudd. In olden days man fought Tyrannosaurus rex; nowadays he battles Tyrannosaurus regina -his wife. With Dick Shawn and Joan Hackett deftly handling the key roles, this wry, observant comedy argues with cogency that marriage is funny as hell...
...second and last act of Peterpat is a kill-and-make-up reconciliation scene. Under Joe Layton's fluid direction, it is a remarkably resourceful display of in-bed infighting. The sight gags are eruptively funny and the dialogue blends the flip quip with the rueful truth, as when Pat says to Peter apropos of his mistress: "Just think, if you had married her ten years ago, today you could be having an affair with...
Dick Shawn and Joan Hackett are admirable foils. He paints the clown-husband character with broad vaudevillian brush strokes. She is a comic pointilliste, and her precise inflections of wifeliness dot the brain like a quiver of hatpins. Peterpat sometimes gets enveloped in the vapors of farce, but one deep breath of comic wisdom animates it-marriage is as funny as hell...