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TINY ALICE, the dark lady of Edward Albee's allegory, has baffled critic and playgoer alike; in the impeccable performances of a cast headed by Irene Worth and John Gielgud, pseudo-metaphysics take on theatrical vitality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Apr. 2, 1965 | 4/2/1965 | See Source »

TINY ALICE, the dark lady of Edward Albee's allegory, has baffled critic and playgoer alike; only in the impeccable performances of the cast headed by Irene Worth and John Gielgud, pseudo-metaphysics take on theatrical vitality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mar. 26, 1965 | 3/26/1965 | See Source »

...Couple is an evening of group hysteria, induced by Playwright Neil ("Doc") Simon, Director Mike Nichols and two greatly gifted actors of atrabilious hilarity, Walter Matthau and Art Carney. The only worry they leave in a playgoer's head is how to catch his breath between laughs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Divorce Is What You Make It | 3/19/1965 | See Source »

...PUSSYCAT. In Bill Manhoffs sly interpretation of the mating ritual, a saucy prostitute (Diana Sands) runs circles around a stuffy book clerk (Alan Alda). To his horror and the playgoer's amusement, he helps her trap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jan. 29, 1965 | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

...device that knits the evening together is that dramatic vice, a narrator, whose luckless duty is to tell the playgoer why, for the moment at least, there is no play going on. When the actors take over, War and Peace springs to life-life with all its joyous, grievous and profound trivia, its indestructible reality. Children are born, men and women marry or do not marry, father fights with son and son with father, the old die. Peace is love, war is evil. In war, the young die, husband is torn from wife, the round of daily life is violated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Parable of Destiny | 1/22/1965 | See Source »

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