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...Playwright Eduardo de Filippo is a deft entertainer who deals in stage Italians in the same way that others deal in stage Irishmen or Jews. Stage Italians are volatile, tempestuous, jealous, meltingly sentimental, arm-waving operatic hams. Right? Right...
...husband Phil is a gregarious fuel-truck driver of excessive bonhomie who reeks of gasoline fumes. He cannot cope with his wife's mastectomy. He masturbates and cheats on the side. Just to make it doubly clear that sex is all that truly bound this couple together, Playwright Burr has another couple visit Mert and Phil, and this pair indulges in the most rabid preliminaries to cunnilingus seen on the New York stage since the late...
...historic opening at Broadway's Plymouth Theater. No sooner had the animal cries of pain subsided, the drumming hoofs died away, than the audience leaped to its feet to give Playwright Peter Shaffer, seated in a box, a five-minute ovation. No one could recall such a spontaneous demonstration on Broadway since Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman opened in 1949. The shy Shaffer was overwhelmed. "It's never happened to me before," he said. "I cry every time I think about...
...course," said Shaffer. "But the audience invested so much emotion in the play that it looked as if they had." Many of the audience at Equus react similarly: they claim they see the horses' eyes roll. That to Shaffer is the fulfillment of his job. "The playwright must exercise the audience's muscle, its imagination...
...high. On their heads are airy, stylized masks of interlaced leather and silver wire. These possess such hieratic dignity and beauty that a special citation should be awarded Scenery Designer and Costumer John Napier. How could these noble animals be maimed by a boy who revered them? For answers, Playwright Shaffer digs into his rather voluminous bag of stereotypes. Alan's mother is a frigid religious hysteric, compellingly played by Frances Sternhagen...