SOURCE: "Getting Out after Time," in Plays and Players, Vol. 26, No. 10, July 1979, pp. 36-7.

In the review below, Raidy focuses on the performances of Pamela Reed and Susan Kingsley as Arlie-Arlene, .

Marsha Norman's starkly real first play, Getting Out, first presented in New York last fall at the Phoenix Theatre and originally done at the Actors' Theatre of Louisville (Kentucky), makes no compromises.

It is a disarmingly powerful portrait of an emotionally troubled young woman with no slick 'happy ending', no overly elaborate psychological explanations, just the sadly unvarnished truth. This is the strength of Getting Out, currently being presented at the Theatre De Lys with al-most the entire original cast.

Miss Norman, a former teacher of disturbed children at the Kentucky Central State Hospital, focuses her documentary canvas on an emotionally tortured young woman who has spent most of her life since adolescence in and out of...