Play with a Tiger | Liaisons
In the following review, Gellert praises the intent behind Lessing’s play but says the play suffers in performance.
It is a brave man—and perhaps a braver woman— who attempts to expose on a stage the intimate mental gropings of lovers. Love shared is perfect to the sharers but embarrassing to observers; love illreciprocated gains at once in dramatic interest, but the necessary condensation of experience into a few pithy scenes leads almost inevitably to a bloating of life’s absurd delicacies, a kind of noisy, rhetorical sensitiveness that carries its own built-in alienation effect. Basically, one mustn’t funk it, Doris Lessing’s Play with a Tiger (Comedy) has a lot in common with,...
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