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...PAUL ZINDEL...
Maureen Stapleton livens up the tryouts of Paul Zindel's play. Although pleasant, the steady drip, drip, drip of situation comedy makes these secret affairs less than wild...
...only a 20-minute, five-mile trip from Staten Island to Manhattan, but when Zindel made it last week, it represented his emancipation. "Now maybe I'll be able to start living. Whoever I am was squashed," he says. Some public evidence of the past lingers; Zindel has another play, this one on Broadway, called And Miss Rear don Drinks a Little-about three sisters, all teachers. He is working on two plays, one the book for a musical, from the perspective of a new present and unknown future...
...path he seems determined to avoid is that taken by another Pulitzer winner and one of Zindel's playwriting models, Edward Albee, whose work since he won his prize in 1967 has displeased most reviewers. Says Zindel: "Albee is an example of what happens when one receives a prize and spends too much time shopping for antiques and wallpapering one's bathroom with velour. He's also an example of a playwright who doesn't listen to those who can give him objectivity...
...Zindel's exploration of a deep, narrow shaft of his life recalls Henry David Thoreau's rejoinder to those who urged he broaden his perspective through travel: "I have traveled a good deal in Concord." Zindel says rightly that despite the psychologically crippled characters and lacerating tensions in Marigolds, it is an affirmation of life-the experimenting schoolgirl endures literally and symbolically, despite the emotional violence around her. Like her, Zindel has transcended his experience. Thoreau eventually went as far as Minnesota. For Zindel, Manhattan may be far enough; it is the inner distance that counts...