Confronted with divine works, the characters in Terrence McNally's two playlets react with decidedly profane thoughts. |
This propels three playlets showing how, depending on trifles, the evening may turn out in three different ways, variously affecting four lives. |
Wilson doesn't force the show into a succession of playlets, but he gives the dramatic potential of each song a free run. |
The Sondheim revues work as well as they do because so often the songs are inherently dramatic, almost playlets in their own right. |
So if these religious playlets are essentially such crowd pleasers, why aren't they staged more often? |
Not all of Tennessee Williams's unpublished or forgotten playlets deserve staging. |