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...type is what might be called the Rorschach-test play, a Harold Pinter specialty. The ambiguity of his plots and the opacity of his characters' motivations leave the playgoer with the task of figuring out what the play means. In the process, each member of the audience reveals himself to himself. For playgoers who relish self-analysis and puzzle solving, the genre is extremely stimulating; others may find it both irritating and baffling...
These questions, which each playgoer will answer in his own way, give the play its haunting texture of actual life where paradoxes abound, contradictions prevail, and the course of events rarely parallels the fine geometry of logic. Both Pleshette and Grandy are outstanding, and Grandy, who graduated from Harvard in 1970, is possibly the No. 1 off-Broadway acting find of this season. "T.E.K...
Like virtually everything in the theater, the revival is an enterprise of high risk. In addition to normal hazards, it must compete with the playgoer's memories of past productions or expectations aroused in the classroom or the library. In an era of relative creative dearth like the present, a spate of revivals comes to the fore as the theater's defensive mechanism of survival. Some are delightful, some are dreadful, all are instructive; it is invariably interesting to see what the effects of time, changing values or an altered milieu have had on a classic. Some current...
...editorial page, which had gone from one to two columns before the War, used its extra ten inches to take up the cudgels of a slow of new causes undreamed of before the War. Just before the new press was installed a supplement, the Bookshelf, appeared, and the Playgoer, a page of dramatic criticism made its first appearance in March...
...first two acts, the most conscientious playgoer will be hard put to discern any guiding purpose in the play. It follows the Book of Genesis straightforwardly, except for the injection of delicatessen humor. This is unfortunate on two counts. For one, Broadwayese does not mesh properly with the King James English that is inflectively present in the text. More important, Miller is leading from weakness; humor has never been his forte...