Word: apa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time when theatrical fashion seems to be running toward staged freak-outs and ad-libido dialogue, the APA Repertory Company chose two drawing-room comedies for the first productions of its 1968-69 Manhattan season. Each of them, moreover, is in verse: T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party and Molière's The Misanthrope. It was a brilliantly offbeat dramatic selection, but there, unfortunately, APA's brilliance ran out. The staging of the Eliot play is so inadequate that it points up weaknesses of the play that were not so apparent in the more religiously...
...APA repertory strikes a range of notes-from the wholesome humor of The Show-Off and the slightly sour satire of Pantagleize through the elegiac tones of The Cherry Orchard and the mournful wail of Exit the King...
...APA repertory strikes a range of notes-from the wholesome humor of Tlie Show Off and the slightly sour satire of Pantagleize through the elegiac tones of The Cherry Orchard and the mournful wail of Exit the King...
...APA repertoire includes Pantagleize, a Belgian farce that wrestles with commitment in life; Exit the King, an existential drama that confronts the inexorability of death; The Cherry Orchard, a Chekhovian masterpiece on the relentlessness of change; and The Show Off, an American comedy about the maddening aspects of an all too recognizable human type...
...CHERRY ORCHARD. Uta Hagen leads the APA in a gentle and balanced production of Chekhov's commentary on the sad absurdity of human beings who, unable to adapt themselves to the changes of history, grope about in a half-light that may be twilight and may be dawn. Pantagleize, The Show Off and Exit the King round out the repertory...