The Zoo Story - Production Reviews
PRODUCTION REVIEWS
Brooks Atkinson (review date 15 January 1960)
SOURCE: "Theatre: A Double Bill Off Broadway," in The New York Times, 15 January 1960, p. 37.
[The following review of The Zoo Story praises it, calling it "consistently interesting and illuminating—odd and pithy" but flawed by a melodramatic ending.]
After the banalities of Broadway it tones the muscles and freshens the system to examine the squalor of Off Broadway.
Three actors suffice for the two short plays put on at the Provincetown Playhouse last evening. Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape makes do with one actor—Donald Davis from the Crest Theatre in Toronto. Edward Albee's The Zoo Story needs two—George Maharis and William Daniels.
Both plays are dialogues. Both plays are interesting, and both of them are well acted by intelligent professionals. Nothing of enduring value is said in either play. But each...
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