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Cbr Austin Statesman Friday, Jur 197 Paae 44 Austin, Texas 1 (A VT Playwrights Workshop Drama Bill Opens With Offbeat Comedies Although it explores very familiar territory, the play manages to bring some fresh fun to its premise, and under Robert Brewer's direction, it's splendidly acted by Mona Lee Fultz as the wife, Fred Behringer as the husband and ara I.oewcnstcrn as the sister-in-law. "Bits and Pieces," its companion piece on this UT bill, is a more ambitious attempt, and perhaps because from the author), and the veteran Linalce Carey and Larry Martin, playing an old movie actor, contribute some excellent moments in small supportini parts. Admittedly, "Bits and Pieces" is trying to work on a number of levels, some more effectively than others, but it ends up delivering somewhat less than it promises at the outside. The bill will run nightly through Saturday. it tries much more, it tends to be the less satisfactorily realized.

This one is built around the funny idea' of a man who has bequeathed various parts of his body to science. When he dies and the organs have been distributed, the widow becomes obsessed with the idea of knowing where these parts have gone and what they are now doing an obsession that sends her out on a global odysscy with often up some innocuous, if faintly macabre fun, and in trying to interlard her "grander schemes" into the framework of her basic plot, she ends up with a show of rather mismatched parts, It is, er 1 frequently captivating in Its loose, offbeat kind of comedy, and in the end, it is also fairly gripping in its serious side. But it tends to go on much too long (it appears to be winding down three or four times before it actually ends) and in a distractingly uneven sort of way. Again Mona Fultz, back on the campus where she scored some most impressive successes in past seasons, is very good as the wife and John Pendleton is effective as her husband. Tara Loewenstern returns to add a wild bit as a slripteuse in a kind of entre-act piece of continuity (and additional comment MJ JSC FTT I I-a: WITH THAT JULIE ANCHEWS DICK Mm BYES ff TECHNICOLOR bizarre results.

Playwright Jacker intends this play to do a great deal more, obviously, than just stir ttf ttf 1 I 1500 PLEASANT DID 111) hi. Inn ltl Broadway Productions Gols tnel Food rj presents I Ntl S'mon'i Comedy Hh come I houn I I NOW I I ON STAGE Doors Open 6pm Nisfitly fj Matinees Sunday I kiwiim JB VZ1 5I2-I3S SJ2I BBSr 1 ratuej. TEXAS By JOHN' BUSTIN Amusements Editor A pair generally Intrigulns but erratically entertaining new comedies got the 1973 E. P. Conkle Workshop for Playwrights off to a curious kind of start Thursday night in the Drama Building Theater Room on the University of Texas campus.

Opening the Conkle Workshop this summer is a double bill pairing "Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner" with "Bits and Pieces," both by New York playwright Corinne Jacker, a writer with a facile touch but a rather unrestrained hand. "Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner," the shorter piece and the one opening the evening, is a fairly straightforward little piece about a modern marriage that is beginning to run aground. The husband is an obviously repressed type who yearns to be a writer, while the wife is a socially aware person who thinks that Adlai Stevenson's death killed her libido. It's clearly a shaky marital situation, and when the wife's free-swinging sister arrives on the scene, problems and humor escalate. TRANSTEXAS KOI N.timtrllri.-4U-1710 HARBOR PRODUCTIONS INC.

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1, No. 1 for piano, violin and cello. Tickets are $1 for adults and 50 cents for children to hear pianist Doppmann, violinist Posner and cellist Sylvester, (Tom Bayne Photo) Guitarist Stephen Bell To Play Stephen Bell, described by Carlos Montoya as the most expressive classical guitarist he has ever will perform a benefit concert for the Ananda Marga Yoga Society Saturday at 8 p.m. at Tow nes Hall Law School Auditorium, off 2ISth Street and Red River. Sunday, Bell will conduct a free classical guitar i workshop.

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