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The language in Wilson's play is at times quite stunning. He has used the technique of identical repetition of a few scenes to good effect. But repetitiveness can be boring, as example by an old man's reminiscence of a night he spent in a woodshed with the local...
Gods do not make bricks, of course -or build sun domes, or scramble for sassafras in the shrubbery of Central Park. But for people who do, or want to, the Whole Earth Catalog is an almost inexhaustible compendium. Although it is specifically aimed at "technological dropouts" (in the words of...
IF YOU HAPPEN to be in the vicinity of the Colonial Theatre some night this week, you might want to drop by to catch one of the intermissions of The Wind in the Sassafras Trees. They begin at 9:27 and 10:03, and they are both hilarious.
But in its present form, Sassafras can boast only a semi-humorous premise and an incredible two-hour anthology of stillborn gag lines.
In the center of it all is an aimiable British comedian, Frankie Howerd, who plays a character named John Emery Rockefeller--conveniently giving the authors the opportunity to include a raft of Rockefeller jokes. (The play's being retitled Rockefeller and the Indians for its Broadway bow.) Mr. Howerd could...