Word: phils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Phil Esposito picked up one goal and two assists as the Bruins defeated the Detroit Red Wings, 5-2, in National Hockey League play last night...
...MERT AND PHIL by ANNE BURR...
...Mert and Phil is a jarring mismatch between the drama of oppressive realism and the theater of the absurd. It is scabrous in word and action. Some of it is quite funny; some of it is extremely sad. It possesses a barbed honesty that obviously unsettled some of the playgoers who hissed and booed it on opening night, as well as several of the critics. Declaring a personal auto-da-fe WNEW-TV's usually commonsensical critic Stewart Klein declared that he wished to burn Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater and Director-Producer Joseph Papp...
Alcoholic Despondency. Except for New York magazine's ever fastidious John Simon, aesthetic outrage alone rarely elicits such exacerbated responses. The truth is that Mert and Phil abrasively tweaks raw nerves. Mert (Estelle Parsons) is well into middle age and has recently had one cancerous breast removed. Only too conscious that her breasts were the chief attraction she exerted on her husband, she is sinking into a state of garrulous alcoholic despondency. She swigs continuously from a bottle, and her only other visible activity is carrying a plunger to a stopped-up toilet. That facility is overemployed, since Mert...
Mert's husband Phil is a gregarious fuel-truck driver of excessive bonhomie who reeks of gasoline fumes. He cannot cope with his wife's mastectomy. He masturbates and cheats on the side. Just to make it doubly clear that sex is all that truly bound this couple together, Playwright Burr has another couple visit Mert and Phil, and this pair indulges in the most rabid preliminaries to cunnilingus seen on the New York stage since the late...