Word: apa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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RIGHT YOU ARE. Luigi Pirandello is the philosopher king of 20th century playwrights, an existentialist before Sartre and Camus, an absurdist before Beckett and lonesco. This 48-year-old intellectual whodunnit has scarcely a grey line in its script, and the APA troupe has obeyed the playwright's commandment: "to convert the intellect into passion...
...SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. The APA company rubs too much 20th century balm and too little 18th century acid into the pores of this high-styled Sheridan play. It does have one delight: Rosemary Harris as Lady Teazle, the country kitten who comes to London town, takes the burr out of her purr and meows down the city minxes...
...currently starring as a bedazzling Lady Teazle in Sheridan's The School for Scandal, put on by the Association of Producing Artists, now established as New York's most professional repertory theater. Before the season is out, she will be playing in APA productions of Pirandello, Ibsen, Shakespeare and a rerun of You Can't Take It With You. In addition to all that diversity on Broadway and in touring stints in Toronto, Ann Arbor and Los Angeles, she will be seen this week in NBC-TV's Hallmark Hall of Fame playing Elvira in Blithe...
Physical Plasticity. There aren't many chameleons around who, at 39, can boast that kind of versatility. But her age is unimportant. Katharine Cornell calls her "the best young actress I know," and Helen Hayes, who is trouping this season with APA, says that she is "the Joan of Arc of the old pros." Sir Laurence Olivier, who invited her to play Ophelia in the London première of the National Theater Company in 1963, and also directed her in Uncle Vanya, says that she played "the most beautiful scene I've ever seen in my life...
...Right You Are is fraught with secrets too terrible to tell, The School for Scandal is full of secrets too scandalous not to whisper. The APA company rubs a trifle too much humanizing balm and not enough stingingly satiric acid into the pores of the play, and the production is no 18th century match for the high-styled revival presented on Broadway three seasons ago by John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson. Yet it does have one incomparable delight: Rosemary Harris as Lady Teazle, the country kitten who comes to London town, takes the burr out of her purr and meows...