Word: anouilh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, Stratford, Conn. Morris Carnovsky is Shylock in The Merchant of Venice; Cyril Ritchard doubles as Oberon and Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream; Maria Tucci plays the title role of Jean Anouilh's Antigone until Sept. 10. Macbeth joins the repertory July...
...Note--"A Midsummer Night's Dream" plays through Sept. 10 in alternation with "The Merchant of Venice" and Anouilh's "Antigone," with "Macbeth" joining the repertory on July 25. The other productions will be reviewed in subsequent issues. The drive to the picturesque grounds on the Housatonic River takes about two and a half hours via the Massachusetts Turnpike, Interstate 91, and the Connecticut Turnpikle to Exist 32. Performances tend to begin promptly at 2:30 and 8:30 in the air-conditioned Festival Theatre, and wandering minstrels perform a half hour before curtain time. There are free facilities...
Composer-Impresario Gian Carlo Menotti had never directed a straight play before, but this was one challenge he could not resist. It was the first Ital ian production of Jean Anouilh's Medea, with volcanic Film Actress Anna Magnani (Open City, The Rose Tattoo) in the title role. Menotti realized all along, though, that working with Magnani is "like working with fire. It might burn down the whole house if you let it go, but if you put water on it, the fire might go out. You must keep the fire burning without destroying the theater...
There was smoke right from the first reading. In Anouilh's updating of Euripides' tragedy, Medea is abandoned by her lover, Jason, who takes up with Glauce, daughter of King Creon of Corinth; in retribution, Medea kills her two children by Jason, and murders both Glauce and Creon. Magnani's view was that Medea had got the short end of the stick, that Jason was a no-good porco. Menotti did not quite see it that way. "Jason's story is like every Italian man's," he explained. "He is just a tired...
Contributors have always ranked among France's most eminent men of letters; today they range from Political Analyst Raymond Aron to Moviemaker Rene Clair to Biologist Jean Rostand to Play wright Jean Anouilh...