Word: arden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...greatly to be feared that Britain's John Arden is just such a playwright. In this play he has managed to fulminate for very nearly three hours on General Sherman's admirably succinct text: War is hell...
...York Times's Charlotte Curtis: "He would arrange his people around the room as if he were a woman preparing for a ball. He would put Mrs. William Paley on one banquette like a huge bouquet of flowers, Mrs. John Pell on another side, and perhaps Elizabeth Arden in still a third corner...
...Musicals? Hello, Dolly! has Mary Martin, no less. Chekhov? Sir John Gielgud and Claire Bloom were great in Ivanov. There was also a new Hamlet, starring a 24-year-old flash named David Warner. Also plays by two of Britain's most important newcomers, Harold Pinter and John Arden. And Sir Michael Redgrave and Ingrid Bergman in Turgenev's A Month in the Country. Also an updated satirical revue, Beyond the Fringe. Not to forget Sir Laurence Olivier in Congreve's Love for Love, as well as Alec McCowan and Siobhan McKenna in The Cavern and Dorothy...
...Jones, also directed John Osborne's play Luther. Tom Courtenay, who starred in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner -which Tony Richardson directed-played Pasha in Zhivago, will go back into rep this summer. Albert Finney, who was Tom Jones, has a few more weeks in Arden's Armstrong's Last Goodnight at the National Theater, will next do Strindberg. Gielgud, who brings his Ivanov to the U.S. in April, this time with Vivien Leigh, was seen the last two weekends in The Ages of Man on CBS television in the U.S. Julie Christie, having finished...
...said an ex-pastry cook named Arnold Wesker, "I knew it could happen. I went home and wrote my first play in six weeks." The thunder of Osborne summoned not only Wesker (Roots, Chips with Everything) but a whole cloudburst of writers turned playwrights. Among them: Pinter (The Caretaker), Arden (Live Like Pigs), Ann Jellicoe (The Knack), Brendan. Behan (The Hostage) and Shelagh Delaney (A Taste of Honey). These new dramatists led their audiences out of the drawing room and into the kitchen for a close, painful view of the cynical, life-hungry, postwar generation...