Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...generally fine cast makes the most of even the worst of the script, and there is a lot of very funny material here as well. Overall, The Good Doctor is well-written and well-performed. It is a funny, light comedy that should please everyone. If you're bored this weekend, you can find your cure in Simon's theater of operations...
...Mather House Drama Society's production of T.S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party, the three acts seem more like eight, and often the laughter does not come from Eliot's script but rather from the blunders of the actors...
...myth of a medieval count who made a pastime of impaling women. It's an exciting story, one that has captivated generations of moviegoers, but as a play it has some problems. Plot is clearly not among them, but form certainly is. The Leverett House production has an uninspired script and acting that adds no spice...
...name of the son's script, The Cocktail Hour, is the same as the work onstage. The setting, "upstate New York," is plainly the native Buffalo of its author, A.R. Gurney (The Dining Room). Gurney's actual family has made little secret of its distaste for being portrayed in his work ever since his cartoonish Love in Buffalo was mounted at Yale School of Drama in 1958, while he was a student there. Yet the puckish hint of autobiography is only one of the charms of The Cocktail Hour, which opened off-Broadway last week...
...spite of the clever script's vivid characters, the rest of the actors give uneven performances. Linda Klaamas, who plays the Clara the maid, has a few truly comic moments, but these brief seconds do not constitute a great performance...