Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strike and an O'Casey-like young idealist (Kevin McCarthy) who is killed in it, the events, far from displaying any clear dramatic line, are never really dramatized at all. Garrulous minor characters outshine those involved in action, Dublin overshadows individual Dubliners, speech passes into song, movement into ballet. The tone, reflected in Howard Bay's graphic sets, is now harshly, now religiously lyrical...
...addition to presenting chamber operas in the proper surroundings, he hopes to attract new and even experimental works by living composers. Already scheduled: Mozart's Cost fan Tutte, Scarlatti's Mitridate Eupatore, De Falla's Master Peter's Puppet-Show, Stravinsky's ballet, Apollon Musagetes...
...Hollywood, Cinemogul Spyros Skouras, president of 20th Century-Fox, admitted that TV "has given us tremendous competition and is rapidly arid vastly improving, with such presentations as the Sadler's Wells Ballet, Peter Pan and The Devil's Disciple, which the people get gratis...
...turned, to switch the action from one to another of Designer Wolfgang Roth's three pretty sets, something got caught. But by curtain time, the mechanism was behaving itself. The evening proved one of the Met's gayest in years-a mood helped along by a ballet prelude, Soiree, choreographed by Zachary Solov against a brilliant setting by Cecil Beaton...
...bare plot, however, serves only as a frame on which the playwright hangs his opinions on social reform, religion, and the class struggle. At times, as in the first scene of act two, O'Casey ignores the story altogether and inserts songs, a ballet, and passages of almost pure lyrical poetry. As a result, the play generates considerable emotional intensity but lacks direction...