MR. AND MRS. FITCH A REVUE

Douglas Carter Beane is one of the more reputable playwrights working today. In plays like "The Little Dog Laughed" and "As Bees In Honey Drown" Mr. Beane has tapped into the problems of simple humans with humor and honesty.However MR. AND MRS. FITCH his latest work is not one of his better efforts.
This time he is writing about two married gossip columnists who are having trouble finding the juicy morsels for their columns so they start making them up.
Mr. Beane sometimes does get in some scathing barbs about truth and fiction in the gossip columns,but in trying to write in an early Neil Simon style he hurls his jokes and one liners at the audience rather recklessly.
Some of his jokes are quite funny, but they come at such a rapid pace that you miss some of them, and instead of leaving the theatre satisfied you leave mearly exhausted.
The cast of two are fun. John Lithgow and Jennifer Ehle aquit themselves well enough even if they don't seem entirely comfortable in their roles and director Scott Ellis does his best to field Mr. Beans' gag-attack on the senses.
MR. AND MRS. FITCH is not a bad way to spend an evening,but its'chronic case of the funnies wears out its' welcome long before it is over.
At THE SECOND STAGE THEATRE 305 WEST 43rd STREET N.Y.C.