Word: anouilh
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...Trojan and all subsequent wars. Audiences might argue whether Samuel Beckett's puzzling, plotless Waiting for Godot was profound art or a mere philosophic quiz show; less arguable was the neatness of its writing, the desolation of its mood. In Lillian Hellman's sharp adaptation, Jean Anouilh's The Lark proved a lively stage piece; under Tyrone Guthrie's vivid direction, Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great, if still no play, was rich in theater, spectacle, rhetoric...
...praised the efforts of Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Jean Anouilh, Paddy Cheyevski...
...Jean Anouilh's Thieves' Carnival is clearly the work of a literary stylist. It has a delicate, charming style which is something like a waltz of distinctly impressionistic orchestration. Fittingly, the plot sometimes takes a rest and the characters actually break into a dance...
...Anouilh, however, did not have to rely on tricks to keep his comedy alive, because the story, which wanders somewhere between farce and fantasy, is very amusing in its own right. The play relates the adventures of three its own right. The play relates the adventures of three thieves who become the guests of a rich and thoroughly bored old woman in search of diversion. The three relish their new life so much that they stay on to enjoy their hosts' fine brandy and the company of the household's two young ladies. But a romance, inevitably, between...
Thieves' Carnival by Jean Anouilh is Lyric Productions' first offering. The place is Fine Arts Theatre, Norway Street, rather off-beat and unquestionably off-Broadway. At 8:40 p.m. tonight...