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PROMISES, PROMISES is a musical to remember other musicals by. No playgoer will feel bilked if he attends the show, nor will he miss a thing if he skips it. Jerry Orbach as the self-abasing anti-hero and Marian Mercer as an amorous pickup turn in the best performances...
...sacred right of youth to rebel; but he finds that his totally permissive home life leaves him nothing to rebel against. Despite stilted direction and a somewhat awkward translation, the play is one of those rare and engrossing dramas that pay an evening-long courtesy call on the playgoer's mind...
...production of rightful humor, and the actors seem to admire the play without enjoying it. The translation into English is somewhat awkward and definitely requires idiomatic agility. Despite these production flaws, Tango is one of those rare and engrossing dramas that pays an evening-long courtesy call on the playgoer's mind...
...PARTY and THE BASEMENT. Harold Pinter provokes a devilishly clever sort of participatory theater in which the playgoer is lured into playing detective without any clues. In Tea Party, a middle-aged manufacturer of bidets is driven into a catatonic state by the interactions of his secretary, his wife and her brother. The Basement has two old friends vying for the affections of a girl with whom they share a basement flat...
...blow to instruct. Almost all his dramas are displays of belligerent didacticism. The stage was his prize ring. The audience was his sparring partner. There he was-"poor B.B.," as he always liked to think of himself-lashing out with a bruising ideological left to the midriff, jolting the playgoer with some brisk truism...