Word: satiricism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although scheduled first on the program, Reuel Denney's September Lemonade was given last, and it should stay in that position, for it is one of the funniest pieces to be seen around here in a long time. With deftly worded satiric verse, Denney takes pseudo-intellectualism, in the form...
He partakes of all that is finest in American literature--the sense of nature and of revelation of Emerson and Thoreau, the sharp and pessimistic but compassionate wit of Twain, Lardner, and Marquis, the enthusiasm of Whitman, the highly developed awareness of fantasy and symbolism of Melville, James, and Faulkner...
As a satiric fantasy, The Solid Gold Cadillac very faintly suggests The Madwoman of Chaillot: here, too, an old lady tackles and triumphs over hardheaded tycoons; here, too, are aired some of the shadier ways of high finance. But no two plays could be less alike in spirit, nor, for...
The unhappy side of the play is that it is the purest Broadway-laughs or nothing. It has a funnybone without a spine; it could almost be described as a satire without a viewpoint. It seem's put together with the very pins it sticks in others, though at...
The ingredients of Almanac are the revue staples--satiric sketches, comic monologues, and production numbers. Even more stubbornly than the usual revue, however, the show makes no attempt to tie them with a cohesive thread. The only common elements of the scenes are the superb settings by Pene Du Bois...