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Home Free and The Tiger. Two plays by Lanford Wilson and Murray Schisgal, respectively. Performed by Theatre People at the American Center, 78 Lansdowne St., Boston. Jan. 12-16 at 7:30. Tickets...
...Winner Ellen Burstyn is back in the hit comedy Same Time, Next Year, Rex Harrison and Julie Harris star in In Praise of Love, and Ingrid Bergman is in The Constant Wife. Cleavon Little escaped Mel Brooks' clutches long enough to run off with the notices in Murray Schisgal's flip farce All Over Town, and Elizabeth Ashley returned triumphantly in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. The British sent over a generation of stars, including Alec McCowen and Diana Rigg playing together with the finesse of the Lunts in The Misanthrope, John Wood portraying a rapier-sharp...
...Murray Schisgal commands the last manic outpost of the theater of the absurd. He can be terribly funny-provided his audience possesses sympathy with the dipsy doodlers of this world...
...terms of dramatic biodynamics, Schisgal has attempted to fuse the zany family comedy of You Can't Take It with You with the door-slamming wackiness of Feydeau's geometrically composed bedroom-chases-cum-orgies. Unfortunately, Schisgal's characters are as charmless as unthreaded spools, and he has yet to learn the primal lesson of the Feydeau farce: comic tension depends on who is hiding behind the door rather than who breezes casually through...
While Lasky and Little are tangy with comic flavor, Schisgal's shining angel for 1975 is Dustin Hoffman, making his debut as a director. Moving 18 actors with the agility of an Osterizer, Hoffman proves that he is only a laugh-beat away from the comedic ingenuity Of Mike Nichols...