Word: polishes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BLACK COMEDY. What people do, say and discover when suddenly plunged into the dark is the single droll conceit on which Peter Shaffer's convulsively amusing farce is based. An acrobatically agile cast, including Michael Crawford, Geraldine Page and Lynn Redgrave, brings the monkeyshines to a high polish...
...Yale plays standard college squash," Barnaby said. "They work for power and are satisfied to hit the ball flat. We have been concentrating on technical drills and execution, hoping to polish our control. Our players work to slice the ball, giving it a backspin and making it 'go dead' or drop on rebound...
...Broadway BLACK COMEDY. What people do, say and discover in the dark, is the single droll conceit on which Peter Shaffer's convulsively amusing farce is based. An acrobatically agile cast, including Michael Crawford, Geraldine Page and Lynn Redgrave bring the monkeyshines to a high polish...
Black Comedy's monkeyshines are brought to a high polish by an acrobatically agile cast, but the players might have been spared some arm-and-leg-work if Playwright Shaffer had pared the show and tightened the pace. Choosing to be optically antic, he evades the opportunity to show how the eye lies and the mind's eye ferrets out reality -which might have given the evening more intellectual relish, a sort of Pirandello flavor. In a one-act opener called White Lies, Shaffer tries to be wise rather than clever about lovers and lovelessness. As an impoverished...
...East Wind. There are some evenings in the theater when no vestige of dramatic joy can be scented, tasted, felt, seen or heard. Manhattan's Lincoln Center Repertory Theater has provided far more than its foul share of such evenings. East Wind, by a 41-year-old Polish expatriate, Leo Lehman, is a mighty ill zephyr that further solidifies the company's reputation as the home of seasoned failures...