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Little wonder. By his own testimony, Aunay was a virtuoso in crime, equally gifted as a smuggler, counterfeiter, currency manipulator, drug runner and confidence man. He was once the Riviera's major supplier of tax-free cigarettes, which he brought in from Tangier aboard his chartered yacht. He bootlegged gold coins into Algeria by stuffing them into the innards of frozen chickens, cleaned out the numbered Geneva bank account of a wealthy Casablanca doctor by posing convincingly as his brother. Posing on another occasion as a heroin pusher, he conned two U.S. Narcotics Bureau agents into laying a trap...
SCUBA DUBA. Bruce Jay Friedman constructs a comedy of offhand cruelty. Forcing his audience to laughter while smashing their shibboleths, Actor Jerry Orbach is a one-man implosion as a super neurotic who spends his Riviera holiday stalking around a chateau in his bathrobe, screaming maledictions through the night at mankind in general and his wife and her Negro lover in particular...
SCUBA DUBA is in the tradition of the "new comedy" that draws its laughs not from funny-ha-ha but from funny-peculiar. Novelist Bruce Jay Friedman (Stern, A Mother's Kisses) puts one of his pop-skulled, Mom-obsessed neurotics in a chateau on the Riviera during the night his wife is out cuckolding him with a Negro. Jerry Orbach is wildly, excruciatingly believable as a modern victim-persecutor, one minute hiding under the coats in the closet, the next brandishing a threatening scythe at his enemy, the world at large...
SCUBA DUBA is a flagellatingly funny first play by Novelist Bruce Jay Friedman about an American screwball whose wife runs off with a Negro during a Riviera holiday. Jerry Orbach is perfectly cast as the husband, indiscriminately spraying comic vitriol at countless pet hates. Brenda Smiley is wriggly as a lass with a mini-mind and a Proustian remembrance of flings past...
SCUBA DUBA is a flagellatingly funny first play by Novelist Bruce Jay Friedman about an American screwball whose wife runs off with a Negro during a Riviera holiday. Jerry Orbach is jokingly brilliant as he indiscriminately sprays comic vitriol at countless pet hates. Brenda Smiley is a wriggly delight as a lass with a mini-mind and a Proustian remembrance of flings past...