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| Grayson Hall, Madeleine Sherwood. |
FRIENDS AND RELATIONS
[Dramas/Death/Family/Friendship/One-Acts/Two Characters/Women] A: Eugene Yanni;
D: Tom Millott; S: Steve Askinazy; P: Tom Millott; T: Provincetown Playhouse
(OB); 10/14/71-10/17/71 (5)
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| Madeleine Sherwood. |
Two of New York’s most respected character actresses,
Grayson Hall and Madeleine Sherwood, were unable to raise these mediocre
one-acts above the inadequate level of their writing. “Friends” showed two
friends of the late, suddenly deceased Carmella, discussing her and the meaning
of their relationships with her. In “Relations” and Academy Award-winning movie
actress with severe emotional problems visits her mother in the latter’s Bronx
apartment and tries unsuccessfully to ingratiate herself with the older woman.
Martin Washburn was irritated “to see plays as ambitionless
and complacent as these,” while Clive Barnes referred to them as “quests for
eccentricity rather than truth [that] pose little more to the spectator than
anecdotes of oddity.”