Word: anouilh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Illuminated Law. The play is Curtmantle, about Henry II and Archbishop Thomas Becket. a theme previously treated by T.S. Eliot and Jean Anouilh. With Anouilh's Becket still running in New York and soon to open in London, Fry tactfully avoided competition, opened his play in an odd setting: the new civic theater at Tilburg, in The Netherlands, where he hoped for a quiet tryout. The fact that the play was given in Dutch would help him, thought Fry. to concentrate less on language than on structure, always his weakness. Hardly a sneak preview, Curtmantle* opened to an audience...
Eliot's brilliant Murder in the Cathedral is a churchly pageant, its great poetry close to litany, concentrating on Becket's temptation to martyrdom and using his murder for savage satire on the hypocritical rationalizations of tyrants. Anouilh's Becket attempts-without much psychological or historical depth-to show the love-hate relationship between the King and the servant-friend who turns against him in order to serve the church. Fry sought to concentrate more on Henry than on Becket and to illuminate the interplay of law-civil, canon, moral, divine. Says Fry: "Henry was essentially religious...
Becket. Although hardly a Murder in the Cathedral, Jean Anouilh's work is full of eloquence and pageantry. Well played by Laurence Olivier and Anthony Quinn...
...Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.).* An adaptation of the Jean Anouilh comedy, Time Remembered, with Dame Edith Evans, in her American TV debut, and Christopher Plummer. Color...
...that her major service has been to upgrade the status of modeling in France, has made it so respectable that it has attracted not only French but wellborn girls of all nationalities. The current Paris roster, she points out, now includes David Niven's twin nieces. Playwright Jean Anouilh's daughter Catherine, Tony Trabert's wife Shawn, along with a princess, a countess, and nieces of Dean Acheson and Paul-Henri Spaak...