Who Killed the Bluebird? If a marriage can die a hundred deaths, it can seemingly survive a thousand coroner's inquests. Who killed the bluebird of happiness, and when?
Robert Anderson puts the questions anew in the second, longer, and stronger of his duo of playlets, Solitaire/Double Solitaire. (The first is an Orwellian fantasy penned in plastic.) In Double Solitaire, Charley (Richard Venture) and Barbara (Joyce Ebert) have allowed 23 years of marriage to carry them from bliss to boredom. Charley is also caught in the middle of the contemporary value crisis. On the one side are his...
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