Word: schisgal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THEATER COMPANY OF BOSTON will be at the University of Rhode Island for the Kingston Summer Theater Festival until Aug. 27 with Tango, by Polish Playwright Slawomir Mrozek, Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, two one-acters by Murray Schisgal, The Typists and The Tiger, and Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf...
...case-history plot has been dead for some time, but it was not formally buried until Murray Schisgal's Broadway comedy Luv kidded it into oblivion. And the protagonist of Saul Bellow's play, The Last Analysis, complains bitterly: "Doctor, I'm fed up with these boring figures in my unconscious. It's always Father, Mother. Or again, breast, castration, anxiety, fixation to the past. I am desperately bored with these things...
...STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Alan (The Russians Are Coming . . .) Arkin stars as a New Yorker facing the hazards of marriage complicated by his love affair with the Big City. Co-starring in "The Love Song of Barney Kempinski" by Murray Schisgal are Sir John Gielgud, Alan King and Lee Grant. Premiere...
...their characters a good confessional cry, straightened out their kinky little complexes, and tucked them beddie-bye. These clinical gospelers of love enjoyed a vogue as long as playgoers were "yung and easily freudened," as Joyce once put it. But fashions are the autumns of ideas. Last season Murray Schisgal put all those clotted cliches into the mouths of three wackily soulful devotees of "adjustment" and "personal relationships," derisively labeled his play Luv, and the psychosexual...
...Playwright Murray Schisgal writes loudly and Director Mike Nichols carries a slapstick in a spoof of a society that out-Freuds Sigmund and out-Friedans Betty...