Word: slapsticker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Edward Albee will be making his fourth annual on-Broadway appearance with Malcolm, a dramatization of Novelist James Purdy's black comedy tracking a 15-year-old's picaresque trail to destruction. Tennessee Williams will be represented by Slapstick Tragedy, which he calls "a pair of fantastic allegories on the tragicomic subject of human existence on this risky planet...
...Murray Schisgal displays three contemporary ids indulging in a slapstick conversational orgy, in the process brilliantly satirizes the playwrights of the absurd...
THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES. A corps of high-borne comedians (Gert Frobe, Alberto Sordi, Terry-Thomas) barnstorm through a London-Paris air race at the controls of delightful vintage-1910 aircraft-held together by heroism, slapstick and nostalgia...
THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES. The exploits of pioneer airmen and their flaphappy craft warm up a daffy, 1910 London-Paris air race and slapstick nostalgia is provided by Gert Frobe, Alberto Sordi and Terry-Thomas...
...began filming, for The Knack, filled theatres in London -- where Miss Tushingham created the role Nancy -- and New York. But Lester made an indoor play into an outdoor movie, spicing it with wild cycle rides, water skiing romps, and traffic tie-ups. His sight gags are old hat slapstick but none the worse for wear, and they don't overshadow the personal humor but become a part...