Word: tragie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...join up with a real troupe of actors. Joel, especially, has a nice manic quality, making him a kind of elongated Eliot Gould. But "Changes" is just too riddled with meaningless pretention to challenge what talent is there. Take its subtitle for example--"An Original 'Circus-of-the-Mind' Tragi-Comedy in Three Episodes"--no actor should have to pretend to be performing in such a cerebral bigtop...
PAUL ZWINDEL with his second play. And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, has accomplished what another quasi-literary rising playwright. Tom Stoppard, failed to. He has emerged from his The Effect of Gamma Ray on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds success off-Broadway last season with a phenomenally entertaining tragi-comedy about two sisters, both spinster school teachers, at war with themselves and with their hard-boiled, married and successful sister Ceil. The combination at work in this production of superb acting, smooth, carefully thought-out direction, and clever, deftly turned dialogue makes the finished product well nigh irresistible. Estelle...