Word: anouilh
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...DRAMAS. Luther arrives from Britain, with Albert Finney continuing as Martin Luther in John Osborne's verse play, directed by Tony Richardson (Sept. 25). Jean Anouilh's The Rehearsal, is about a count who democratically seduces a young nursemaid only to encounter the rage of both his wife and mistress for betraying his class (Sept. 23). British Playwright Terence Rattigan's Man and Boy stars Charles Boyer as a Wall Street operator who creeps off to Greenwich Village to live in the pad of his apostate son during the Depression (Nov. 12). Arnold Wesker's Chips...
...first seen on Broadway in a small but memorable part in The Lady's Not for Burning. He scored high a few years later opposite Helen Hayes in Jean Anouilh's Time Remembered. His movie performances have mainly been journeyman labors in poor films, with a few exceptions such as Look Back in Anger. His talents were wastefully poured into Game-lot, like a cataract into a thimble, but he was a more than magical king, giving a performance of rigor, charm, gaiety, melancholy, and controlled dash that made every audience fall in love with him. He was like...
...Jean Anouilh's script is responsible for much of the difficulty, however. For a high school thespian group this play can be challenging and instructive. To be anything more sophisticated than a pleasant junior class play, though, the acting must be superb and creative...
...Waltz, Funnyman Sellers has put his talent on a turkey that, on closer examination, proves to be a plucked peacock. As a play-written by France's Jean Anouilh and played on Broadway by Sir Ralph Richardson and Mildred Natwick-it was a brilliantly dressy slapstick satire: a show most wise and cruel when it seemed most raucous and extravagant. As a screenplay-written by Wolf Mankowitz and directed by John Guillermin-Anouilh's fine-feathered strutter has been saponified, caponified, shorn of its more splendid plumes of wit and stuffed with a mighty chunk of supererogatory...
...last week for a promotion tour. New Sellers films open, it seems, about as frequently as cuckoo clocks; he has made more than two dozen in the last twelve years. Only Two Can Play is playing to sellout audiences in London and New York. He is Jean Anouilh's lecherous old general in Waltz of the Toreadors, which won superlative reviews when it opened fortnight ago in London...