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LOST EMPIRES by J. B. Priestley. 364 pages. Atlantic-Little, Brown...
...Broadway A SEVERED HEAD, by Iris Murdoch and J. B. Priestley, is a most unusual play to encounter on Broadway. It is a sex farce adapted from a novel by an Oxford University professor of philosophy (Miss Murdoch), and its true subject is the nature of reality. Acted with uncommon skill, it is a delectable repast of fun and thought...
...SEVERED HEAD, by Iris Murdoch and J. B. Priestley, is a most unusual play to encounter on Broadway. It is a sex farce adapted from a novel by an Oxford University professor of philosophy (Miss Murchdoch), and its true subject is the nature of reality. It is acted with uncommon skill, and it is a delectable repast of fun and thought...
...Severed Head, by Iris Murdoch and J. B. Priestley, plays a game of musical beds with three men and three women, but it is not about sex. It is a witty, ironic, urbane, satiric, unsettling, elusive, philosophical comedy about the nature of reality...
...laughs-is hardly novel. The Wayward Stork gets its fun from artificial insemination, stars Hal March as a husband who is cuckolded by a test tube. Leslie Stevens, who wrote The Champagne Complex, plays the Oedipus complex for yucks in The Mother Image. The Iris Murdoch-J. B. Priestley farce A Severed Head, is a game of fast sex tennis from London; the players will include Joan Fontaine, Lee Grant and Jessica Walter. Divorce, American style, is viewed from the male standpoint in The Odd Couple, by Neil Simon, who scored heavily with last season's Barefoot...