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...Theater Company of Boston. The title's aptness lies not only in its suggestion of homicide but in its humor as well-each of the three is laughing on the outside while dying on the inside. And the company seems to know exactly what the dark and savage satirist is laughing about...
ADAPTATION-NEXT is an evening of two humorous one-acters directed by Satirist Elaine May with a crisp and zany comic flair. Miss May's own play, Adaptation, is the game of life staged like a TV contest. Next, by Terrence McNally, features an enormously resourceful performance...
Playwright Herlihy, whose imaginative, sharply etched novels Midnight Cowboy and All Fall Down have been made into films starring Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty, is a dark and savage satirist. The six-year-old Theater Company of Boston seems to know exactly what he is laughing about...
Final Placement Syndrome is "what the ordinary sociologist calls 'success.' " Freud's theory that frustration arises from foibles such as penis envy, the Oedipus complex or the castration complex is nonsense, says Peter, who cheerfully regards Freud as a "satirist at heart." On the contrary, "frustration occurs as a result of promotion," because most people who are promoted genuinely wish to be productive...
ADAPTATION-NEXT. Elaine May, a corrosively perceptive satirist with a mean comic punch, is director of both of these humorous one-acters. Adaptation, which Miss May wrote as well, has the ironic viewpoint that life is a game played on the contestant. In Terrence McNally's Next, James Coco gives a fine performance as a potbellied, middle-aged businessman summoned for the draft through an obvious computer error...