FINISHING TOUCHES by JEAN KERR
The middle-aged male in a psychic or physical funk is very much in vogue this season on Broadway. We have seen that theme treated in That Championship Season and Butley, and now in Finishing Touches. Each of these plays fires off salvos of laughter, and yet each also imparts an unsettling mood of deep, free-floating anxiety.
The hero of Touches is a 43-year-old college English teacher named Jeff Cooper who is fretting about a full professorship. Jeff (Robert Lansing) comes home from the classroom one day and tells his wife...
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