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| Dick Latessa, Dorrie Kavanaugh, Frank Raiter. |
A husband, Arthur Comfort (Dick
Latessa), and wife, Grace (Dorrie Kavanaugh), living in a trailer in New Jersey, are
having a disagreement about whether he should continue writing soft core porno
novels or turn to writing a book about her family. Their neighbor, an
advertising man, Trenton Corbett (Frank Raiter), is convinced he can make the husband a
successful writer. When the shy husband’s writing lands him a Time cover, his wife impersonates him
for the interview.
This one-night,
three-character disaster was scuttled by Clive Barnes as “the kind of evening
where they should dress the ushers in leather, [and] provide them with whips,
and then everyone would know what they were getting.” The playwrights, he
added, simply did “not possess the writing talent that might have allowed them
to have exploited their original idea” of satirizing the power of the mass
media to sell inferior goods. “The play was simply awful.”
