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At this stage of career, she's no longer 'Mary Hartman'

By WILLIAM A. RAIDY Newhouse News Service NEW YORK Television’s Louise Lasser was exceptionally happy the other day when a young couple came up to her on the street and did not chortle: “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman!” Instead, they said: “We saw your play.” Mary Hartman, of course, is still very much alive in television reruns, but what is more important for Louise Lasser is that she has a new life as a stage actress in Wallace Shawn’s exceptionally provocative new play, “Marie And Bruce,” opposite Bob Balaban at Joseph Papp’s New York Shakespeare Festival’s Public Theater. Her appearance marks the first time, except for a brief summer theater stint, that Louise has acted before a live audience. It is more than just a breath of fresh air, she says; it’s the actual beginning of a new era in her life. “Actually I look at ‘Marie And Bruce’ as my true debut in the theater,” says the actress, world-renowned as the slightly confused perpetually naive heroine of one of the most popular series in the history of television. “This is my first real, serious acting role. A few things like a small role in Murray Schisgal’s ‘The Chinese and Dr. Fish,’ which I was in 10 years ago, don’t really count. ” Louise Lasser no longer looks like Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. Gone are the bangs and the braids (her former husband, Woody Allen, once told her he wouldn’t go anywhere with her until people stopped screaming “M.H., M.H.” in the streets). Added is considerable poundage (which the actress is busy “working off”) and what she calls “a new life of my own.” “The Mary Hartman show gave me no private life whatsoever,” Miss Lasser says. “We did anywhere from five to 10 episodes a week, leaving no time for anything else. There were 365 of them altogether. Do you know that represents 16 years worth of half hour shows? And it was a part that I was so totally identified with, I couldn’t get away from it. There was no time for friends, no time for anything except Mary Hartman. I never want to- be that lonely again. It was like Louise Lasser didn’t exist. When I leave ‘Marie And Bruce’ after the show, I find I don’t talk about the play all the time. When I was Mary Hartman, I was obsessed with the character.” Miss Lasser has received almost unanimous raves for her portrayal of a neurotic, husband baiting woman who uses a constant stream of scatology to express her inner rage. It is a role that demands not only an expression of sardonic humor but inner turmoil. She brilliantly paints her character in acid and laughter. “I’ve never stopped to count all those four letter words,” says the actress.” but there’s a torrent of them. It’s not the kind of language I use normally, or feel confortable with. And still, the author is never trying to use obscenity for its shock value. All those dirty words, to me, are the parenthetical phrases, expressing something else. It’s strange. Most of the time if I didn’t have a sense of euphoria, playing the part of Marie, I didn’t think I could get through it all. And the play, I feel, is so profound and complex, every single night brings out some different feeling for me. It’s about a deeply involved, highly disturbed couple, who seem to hate and love each other almost at the same time. Some nights, I say to myself, ‘l’m going to leave him. Just look at this horror.’ And other nights, I just know I’m going to stay with him. It’s that kind of play.” Louise Lasser feels that “Marie And Bruce” which has proved so successful it may shortly be moved to another theater for a much longer run than originally intended by the New York Shakespeare Festival came along exactly at the right time. “Actually I had been hoping

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LOUISE LASSER Stage a new life

that someone might call and suggest I dosomething in the theater,” the actress says “But I later found out that every time my name; would come up for something, someone would say, ‘She’s in California.’ I’ve been here in New York for a year and a half now. Then one day; someone from the Shakespeare Festival and when i answered, they said ‘What are you? doing in New York?’ I said, ‘I live here.’ The 1 whole thing turned out to be exactly what 1} wanted a liaison with a great theater group| “For a long time now. I’ve been hoping to* make a connection with serious theater. I’vej wanted to be part of something, to belong. On* the West Coast, I was part of Norman Lear’s} family. And the nicest thing I feel now is that} Joe Papp told me the other day something that* made me very, very happy. He said. ‘You’re* part of our family now.’ The important thing in} my life now is to have a career that has choices,} and to be flexible. I want to work here in New* York, on the stage, and maybe even join Joe} Papp’s new repertory company, if I’m asked.” | Louise Lasser continued: “I’m really a per-} son who gets totally involved in my w'ork. I’m a; whole-hearted worker.” At the moment, she is ; ’ busy taking acting lessons with Robert X ' Modica. They start a little after 10 at night at; Carnegie hall after her performance in “Marie; And Bruce.” She has completed a new film; with Marty Feldman, “In God We Trust,’” which she says she feels “very good about.” ; She has been busy writing “off and on,”; which she says is the most difficult part of her ; creative life. Last year Miss Lasser wrote the script and starred with Charles Grodin in a television film. “Just You And Me.” which was successful enough for NBC to ask her to do; another. Then very recently Louise did a small • role in Woody Allen’s new film, which at thc< moment bears the title “The Fall Project.” She and Woody are still “very good friends." The comedian-writer-director met pretty LouiseLasser when she was a student at BrandeisUniversity studying political theory, something she says she still can’t figure exactly why. Later she studied poetry, philosophy and literature at the New School and worked as!a‘ waitress at a Greenwich Village coffee house known as the Bitter End. It was Woddv Allen’s incubator for a talent that would explode. “Woody kept telling me ‘Louise, please don’t work as a waitress here. It embarrasses me I’ll give you the money.” Louise kept or working. All the while, she says, she knew she was going to be an actress. The only thing, shf said, that “terrified” her all along was ap pearing on a stage. “This time,” she says, “I’m not.”