Word: anouilh
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...though thanks to Comic Nancy Walker, who was very funny when she had material and in places when she hadn't, the largely uninspired revue. Phoenix '55, made a dent. But far funnier was the off-Broadway Shoestring Revue; and there were such other achievements as Jean Anouilh's gay and witty Thieves' Carnival, a stylish revival of Congreve's Way of the World, a sensitive revival-in Stark Young's admirable new translation-of Chekhov's The Three Sisters. Despite much that is amateurish or pretentious, off-Broadway increasingly ministers to sound...
Mademoiselle Colombe (adapted by Louis Kronenberger-from the French of Jean Anouilh) is an amorality play written in Gallic terms, i.e., the playwright never reveals whom he is rooting for. This has proved dismaying to Broadway audiences in the past because, though relishing a good fight between right and wrong, U.S. playgoers prefer to know which is which. Opposed in the turn-of-the-century plot are Eli Wallach, a young man top-heavy with virtue, and his wife Julie Harris, who cannot see why he must do everything the hard way when the easy way is so much more...
...Colombe, as in so many of his other plays (Legend for Lovers, Cry of the Peacock), Anouilh has looked at the face of Love and found once again that it mirrors little more than self-gratification. In its alternations of farce and tragedy, flamboyance and reserve, sweetness and acid, Colombe is as colorful as a pousse cafe. But, like a pousse cafe, it may not be to everyone's taste...
...with a new book by Ben Hecht (see Music) ; and a dramatization of André Gide's The Immoralist, starring Geraldine Page and directed by Herman Shumlin. Other French entries: The Strong Are Lonely, with Victor Francen and Margaret Webster; and a Louis Kronenberger adaptation of Jean Anouilh's bitter Colombe, a starring vehicle for talented Julie Harris...
...good of having me against my will?" Rank released her, and Claire played Alizon Eliot in Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning, then had a successful 18-month run in a bigger part in the season's hit: Fry's version of Anouilh's Ring Round the Moon...