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...sacred nuts. The tradition deepens in the works of playwrights like William Inge and Tennessee Williams. Their characters are not so much oddballs as odd souls who suffer psychic and sexual wounds. This is the world of the alienated self, the mutilated heart, the existential transient, moving a playgoer more nearly to tears than to laughter...
...regard derelicts as exotic romantics? Why should the dregs of society be regarded as the ultimate repositories of its wisdom? Why is a kinky personality presumed to be a rich one? And finally, how much of theatergoing has become a jaded form of slumming in which the middle-class playgoer gawks and laughs at perverse creatures whom he would studiously skirt on the streets? "I.E. Kalem
...ingratiatingly intelligent, though the score never soars toward the memorable. Apart from their notable acting strengths, the sheer likability of Michele Lee and Ken Howard is infectious. She is a warm, supple sprig of femininity; he is a tongue-tied Adam trying to invent a word for love. A playgoer ends up half wishing that the pair could swap their teeter-totter affair for the merry-go-round of marriage. · T.E. Kalem
Playwright Israel Horovitz (The Indian Wants the Bronx, Line, Acrobats) is prolific, ebullient, agile and tenacious. He is a stage animal who has not yet exercised his full territorial imperative. One of Horovitz's problems is that his characters are a shade too volatile and voluble-a playgoer cannot easily enter the heart of a babbling dervish. Another Horovitz problem: a sustained narrative line. He tends to interrupt one story in order to tell another. In Dr. Hero, he is somewhat luckier, since the chronicle is dictated by nature- birth, adolescence, love, marriage, a job, old age, death...
...Whyte, 27, who is making his playwriting debut with these two off-Broadway playlets. Let's mark him for a dolphin who cavorts in drama as if it were his native element. He writes with humor, grace and eloquence, and he creates characters who refuse to leave the playgoer's memory...