Article: Slaphappy

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Windy City Times
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February 11, 2009
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THEATER REVIEW

Slaphappy

Playwright: Gary Slezak

At: Beat The Jester Productions at

Theatre Building Chicago, 1225 W. Belmont

Phone: 773-327-5252; $25-$30

Runs through: March 15

BY MARY SHEN BARNIDGE

Hotel plays constitute a genre all their own, and hotel bedroom farces, a substantial subgenre. But despite playwright Gary Slezak's attempts to disguise his romantic comedy as one of the latter - replete with marital triangles, scantily clad babes, irrepressible zanies, urbane servants, eccentric offstage personalities, slamming doors, chases around sofas and peeking from behind portières - its premise still emerges as more Pierre Marivaux than Alan Ayckbourn.

The chief factor rendering the ...

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