Word: anouilh
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...ambitious series of dramas and operas, CBC will present Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Richard Strauss's Elektra, Verdi's Falstaff, Chekhov's The Three Sisters, O'Neill's The Great God Brown, Henry James's The Pupil, and Anouilh's Ring Around the Moon. After meeting its legally required minimum of 55% Canadian-originated fare, the publicly owned network will fill in with a mixed bag of U.S. imports including Have Gun, Will Travel, Dennis the Menace, Danny Thomas, Red Skelton, Perry Como, Tennessee Ernie Ford, and Ed Sullivan. CBC will...
...late Actress Laurette Taylor (Oct. 27). Eli Wallach will take over the role Laurence Olivier created in London in Eugene lonesco's symbolic Rhinoceros, a play in which everyone but the hero, the last individual, turns into a horny beast (Dec. 3). Sir Laurence himself arrives in Jean Anouilh's Becket. With one eye on history and another on the forces that motivate it, the French playwright follows England's Henry II and Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas a Becket through the murder in the cathedral...
...Fighting Cock (adapted from the French of Jean Anouilh by Lucienne Hill) reveals an Anouilh more balanced than bitter in mood, and more effective as a philosophe than as a playwright. His play is an often witty variant on a persisting theme, perhaps all the more persisting because it poses an insoluble question. The Fighting Cock concerns a retired general disgusted by a world he finds filled with "cheats" and lost to honor. He would like to stir up a movement to get rid of the "maggots." Against this testy idealist rooted in the past, Anouilh sets a number...
...play nicely balances its blunderer from an age of chivalry against the more practical citizenry of an age of compromise. It is an altogether Anouilhan balance, in that it finds much to be said against both sides. But where Anouilh, a worldly observer with both heart and spleen, shows a certain contempt for the riders of bandwagons, he mocks his knight with compassion. And where, in earlier and bitterer mood, Anouilh set his version of Moliere's surly misanthrope against a too complaisant world, his hero in The Fighting Cock comes closer to Cervantes' cracked...
Perhaps no playwright today is more gifted than Anouilh at creating little dialectical monologues or variety turns, at giving a mockingbird's-eye view of a given subject. Dotted with bright remarks, The Fighting Cock half a dozen times foams up into pointed or picturesque little scenes. But instead of a sense of fermentation beneath the foam, there is a good deal of dramatic flatness. It is not so much that the play finds no destination as that it fails to dramatize the very lack of one. What The Fighting Cock needed, in the face...