Word: anouilh
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...past. But Alex keeps calm till Geoffrey casts a luscious peeress, Lady Perdita Carne, in his medieval spectacle play Ludovic II. The soap operantics of Ask Me No More are made palatable by a knowing re-creation of the London theater, lively dialogue that is often outrageously punny ( "Anouilh, get your gun"), and a couple of cocktail party scenes laced with name-dribbling comic horror. It may not be literature, but it is a fairly painless way to decompress, for an evening or two, from the TV bends...
Students organized a drama group which presented a fair Antigone (Anouilh) and an excellent No Exit (Sartre), both highlights of the School's artistic program, along with an outstanding concert by Schmidt's Summer School Chorus, which made a film for television on the problems of training a chorus. Despite few rehearsals, Schmidt's dynamic direction produced a stirring program...
This summer marked the thirteenth season of the Boston Summer Theatre. In its first eleven years, it averaged one or two works of top quality each season amidst a mass of mediocrity. Last summer producer Lee Falk offered nothing but plays of high quality--Jonson's Volpone, Anouilh's Thieves' Carnival, Fry's Venus Observed, Shaw's Back to Methuselah, Giraudoux's The Madwoman of Chaillot, and Graham Greene's The Potting Shed. The 1958 season of eight plays constituted a letdown from last year, but it was far better than all the pre-1957 seasons...
Cambridge's contribution to the summer's theatrical activity derived from the two productions mounted by students in the area. The first was Anouilh's Antigone, given in the Christ Church auditorium. Anouilh's reworking of the ancient myth makes Creon a very sympathetic character. It does not seem so carefully thought out as it should be, but it has undeniable moments of great power...
...play is the Summer Theatre's second production, following the July adaptation of Anouilh's Antigone...