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...feels, were all on one level, devoted to getting the fun out of a funny situation; he now digs deeper psychologically and is willing to explore human traumas more openly. A wide difference in Simon's handling of painful experience divides Come Blow Your Horn, his first production, from Chapter II, his latest straight play. Come Blow Your Horn transformed the attempts of Simon and his brother to break away from home into a mechanically riotous farce. Chapter II, on the other hand, recreated his efforts to build a new life after his wife's death so sensitively that critics...
Approximately five minutes after Chapter II begins, the hero breaks into tears. Nothing extraordinary about such behavior--except that Chapter II is a play by Neil Simon, from whom we expect happy one-liners in the first five minutes, not tears. But this drama, which opened last night in Boston, reveals the voice of a more serious Simon. Most of Simon's characters struggle with the mundane little frustrations that daily bug us all. Chapter II's protagonist faces a much more catastrophic upheaval--the death of a beloved spouse...
...Chapter II deals openly--and, at times, too overwhelmingly--with human pain, which Simon uncharacteristically does not joke about. Don't go expecting a typical Simon laugh-riot. Instead, you will laugh a little and be more than a little moved...
...Chapter II--Shubert Theater, 8 p.m. I can Feel the Air & The Yellow Wallpaper...
Rumors of a flourishing Ku Klux Klan chapter abound, and black residents often complain about what they see as police harassment and terrorism...