Word: pirandello
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...Lenny Bruce and Woody Allen. Brooks traffics not so much in jokes as wild ideas, bits of madhouse theater. His material offers no snappy punch lines to repeat next day at the office. Brooks makes comic epiphanies out of the giddy, gruesome excesses of popular culture. Like some antic Pirandello, he uses comedy itself as a major object of satire...
...with All Over Town and what has turned out to be the season's hottest ticket, Bernard Slade's exercise in extra-conjugal domesticity, Same Time, Next Year. But the sleepers of the season-indeed, the main reason the season itself was a sleeper-were the revivals. Pirandello's The Rules of the Game and Congreve's Love for Love drew enthusiastic audiences; so did Cat and then Gypsy with Angela Lansbury. It was their success that signaled how theater audiences have changed...
...hitch on a Navy cargo ship, Rogers dropped in on a college friend who was directing a workshop production of Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author. "I thought, 'Here's a profession in which a) you must use your mind, b) you use yourself physically, and c) you're alive emotionally. How do I get into this...
...greater theatrical interest is one specific echo from Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author-that illusion transcends reality once solidly conceived characters make the quantum jump from the playwright's imagination to the living stage. The playwright will change, wither away and die; his characters will remain changeless...
...polished cast paced by the sensitive honesty of John McMartin's performance makes the evening hum with suspense. And Pirandello lends it the ironic graveyard mirth of a man who saw life as a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. ∎T.E.K...