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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...
...School for Scandal by Richard Sheridan, and Right You Are by Luigi Pirandello. Whatever their age, these plays have the wine of life bottled in them. Settling down in a Broadway theater, the APA, the nation's most harmonious repertory troupe, deftly uncorks and pours out that 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...