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SAME TIME, NEXT YEAR Directed by Robert Mulligan Screenplay by Bernard Slade...
...characters are Doris (Ellen Burstyn) and George (Alan Alda), strangers who meet at a motel and end up in bed. Though married to others, the hero and heroine continue their affair on a one-weekend-per-year basis. Luckily, Writer Bernard Slade monitors the couple at five-year rather than annual intervals...
...PLAY'S THE THING--or at least it ought to be. But there are times when a performer so transcends the script that the work seems to be just tagging along for the ride. Jack Lemmon's virtuosity in Bernard Slade's Tribute is a current example, and now Irene Worth has come along to provide another in Corinne Jacker's new play After the Season...
Considering the alternative, dying has a lot to recommend it. In recent years screenwriters and playwrights have even found it an unexpected source of dark and cathartic humor. Bernard Slade, the author of the long-running comedy Same Time, Next Year, is the first, however, to write about it as if he were composing humorous jingles for Hallmark cards: "Out but not down...
...play falls apart about the same time, and when Scottie's turn comes to take the stage, he can only say: "You see be fore you a man who has absolutely no finish. I'm not kidding. I don't know how to get off." Playwright Slade might better have spoken the lines himself. His play does not end, but slides to a bathetic conclusion in unsightly puddles of tears and sweat...