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...play is a subltly modulated blend of humor (verging on slapstick) with tragedy (verging on bathos). The Abbey's great achievement in the past has been its ability to stage O'Casey without falling into either abyss. While the production now at the Schubert does not fall from the tightrope acting the play demands, neither does it evoke gasps...
...Sleeping Murder, Christie (1 last week) 2-Trinity, Uris (2) 3-Storm Warning, Higgins (4) 4-Slapstick, Vonnegut (3) 5-Blue Skies, No Candy, Greene (6) 6-Dolores, Susann (5) 7-Lovers and Tyrants, Gray (10) 8-Touch Not the Cat, Stewart (7) 9-Ceremony of the Innocent, Caldwell (9) 10-The Users, Haber
Scapino retains only the barest skeleton from the Moliere play. A standard comedy plot (a pair of lovers, hidden identities, knowing rogues, fodish parents) is used as a jumping-off point for an evening of slapstick and mime. Scapino is a showcase rather than a play; its success depends on the comic talents of the actors in a show which has no pretensions to dramatic integrity. The script demands a veritable catalogue of comedy skills, ranging from stand-up routines to sexual sightgags to circus acrobatics...
...Sleeping Murder, Christie (1 last week) 2-Trinity, Uris(2) 3-Slapstick, Vonnegut (6) 4-Storm Warning, Higgins (3) 5-Dolores, Susann (5) 6-Touch Not the Cat, Stewart (4) 7-Ordinary People, Guest (7) 8-Blue Skies, No Candy, Greene (8) 9-Ceremony of the Innocent, Ca/dweff 10-Wednesday the Rabbi Got Wet, Kerne/man...
...Slapstick, Vonneguf...