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...first playlet. Out from Under, a middle-aged widower with sex-battle fatigue gets himself pinned under a car rather than drive off to announce his engagement to a high-pitched emotional amazon. In The Wen, a distinguished atomic physicist yearns to re-enter the love playpen of childhood. He scouts out a now-stout married member of Hadassah and begs her to let him view again a most intimate mole, in hopes of recovering the lost ecstasy of that first exposure to sexuality. What is ludicrous about this effaces what is poignant. The third and most effectively comic playlet...
...passage is from a playlet called At the Denis. It indicates, however, that Lennon may be capable of putting some sense into the gorbles of his readers; certainly it is logical to assume that if a Sir says "alas," a Madam might say "alad...
Three of the four episodes comprise a movie that a Parisian goes to see one afternoon after a spat with his wife. The first is a grisly little playlet borrowed from Stendhal's Italian Chronicles, about an aging Venetian duchess who gets even with her handsome, young, philandering lover by having him chased by a band of cutthroats. He finds momentary sanctuary in a church where a funeral is in progress. But when he discovers the funeral is for him (a grim whimsy of the duchess'), he runs out and is run through by the bully boys...
With this bit of dialogue, Poet Kenneth Koch begins a beatnik playlet, which was produced off Broadway last March, on how the American Revolution was won. Last week, posted in large letters on one wall of Manhattan's Martha Jackson Gallery, the script served to accompany one of the nuttier art exhibitions of the season. Throughout the gallery stand nearly life-size wooden cutouts of Washington and his horse, Washington and the cherry tree, Washington crossing the Delaware...
...vehicle for the debacle was a playlet called Areopagitica or Escape Fromm Freedom, written eleven years ago by John A. Benedict '54 and Kenneth J. Reckford '54, two veterans of Professor Samuel Beer's annual odyssey. As Professor Beer related to the audience Saturday night, the play, performed only once before, was uncovered after an exhaustive and painstaking search--in his desk--by Thomas Reckford '64, younger brother of the co-author. Even not knowing the dangers involved in exploring the wilds of Professor Beer's desk, I would say the expedition was well worth...