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During the last night of his company's stay, Jean Louis Barrault walked through the vestibule of Sanders theater and through the crowd as though it were his dressing room. He was still in the process of being made up as he shook hands and made last minute arrangements over the ticket gate. The effect was to make all of Memorial Hall his stage. This, in essence, is Barrault's approach to the theater...
...dramatic art which enables the theatregoer to lose himself momentarily in a fairy land and then come back when the curtain falls, is extended by Barrault. For the Barrault company is not just a group that does plays but rather "theater" with relation to life. Barrault himself said, "The object of our kind of theater is contact with contemporary life." If there was any particular way to appreciate this concept, as embodied by the Barrault company, it was by giving in to an unfamiliar abandon. The abandon which in Latin countries surrounds a fair or a visit from a traveling...
Perhaps it was a measure of Barrault's success that when he left us, Cambridge seemed to be a "broad-backed hippopotamus" with its belly in the mud, and all the theatrical excitement a peculiar bubble on its back. Yet there was no lack of enthusiasm while he was here. He was kind enough to say that the Barrault company was captured by Cambridge. The audiences were certainly very eager even when their French was not of the best. And often it was an unusual audience, made up of local school girls dutifully herded to Sanders or great masses...
Omnibus (Sun. 9 p.m., ABC). "The Boyhood of William Shakespeare." adapted by Drama Critic Walter Kerr, narrated by Boris Karloff; Cleveland Amory looks at U.S. society from 1900-14; French Actor Jean-Louis Barrault and his actress-wife Madeleine Renaud in a series of sketches...
After the fashion of pageants, Christophe Colomb-particularly for those a little deficient in French-had its oratorical longueurs, its narrative doldrums. In Actor Barrault it had a Columbus more gamin than heroic. But Director Barrault proved an accomplished showman, and here and there-as in two wittily etched court scenes-a brilliant one. And with Darius Milhaud's lovely music-now pertly dancelike, now swelling or exalted-Christophe Colomb proved an uneven but curiously memorable occasion...