Word: bagnold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chinese Prime Minister is an urbane liar of a play. In a triumph of style over substance, it serves its mental hash like Beluga caviar, pours its intellectual eyewash like Dom Pérignon. This sleight-of-hand artistry succeeds for two reasons. Playwright Enid Bagnold loves the English language with rare fidelity, and in the present semi-illiterate state of the U.S. stage, pure English makes an irresistible lover for an audience. Equally indispensable is an actress who can do no wrong from first entrance to final curtain. Margaret Leighton's eyes are wounds of inner pain...
...COMEDIES: British humor sometimes fails to function cisatlantically, but five British comedies are having a go at Broadway this season. Semi-Detached (Oct. 7) is a mad knitting of woolly middle-class values in English suburbia. Enid Bagnold's The Chinese Prime Minister, not yet produced in London, is about an old actress facing assorted personal problems, including a husband who turns up after a 29-year absence, and stars Margaret Leighton (January). Greatly popular on the West End last year were The Private Ear and The Public Eye-two thematically related one-acters by Peter Shaffer, author...