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Four years ago a famous Parisian troupe, headed by a famous acting couple-Madeleine Renaud and Jean-Louis Barrault-paid their first visit to Broadway. Offering chefs d'oeuvres variés-Shakespeare, Marivaux, Molière-as well as novelties and knickknacks, they particularly scored with their lighter, wittier, most Gallic productions, revealed Director-Actor-Pantomimist Barrault as one of the theater's most agile minds and bodies. Last week, again brought over by Impresario Sol Hurok, the Barrault troupe again promised a menu of both classics (Molière, Lope de Vega, Ben Jonson) and moderns...
...present trip to the New World, Barrault began by saluting another man's more famous voyage there. Christophe Colomb, written by the late French poet (and Ambassador to the U.S.) Paul Claudel, celebrates the discoverer of America as no American playwright has ever bothered to do. Not a play but a pageant, a piece of "total theater," Christophe Colomb employs language, music, choruses, crowds, ballet, a movie screen, a narrator. Nor is Colomb just biographical. It is encrusted with philosophic thought, is suffused with Catholic Poet Claudel's intense religious feeling, and indeed concludes with Queen Isabella...
...cast of the film reads something like an index of the modern French stage. It includes, among others, Gerard Philippe, Danielle Darrieux, Daniel Gelin, Simone Simon, Anton Walbrook, and Jean-Louis Barrault. All of these actors give fine performances, though two at least stand out from the rest: Walbrook, who plays the sophisticated master of ceremonies, and Barrault, as the poet. Few actors would have enough courage to make a declaration of love while lying on their backs on the floor, and enough talent to make the scene come off. Barrault, however, does. His work and that of Max Ophuls...
...being prepared for production this season and more than 50 will probably make it. Some of the world's best performers will play in comedies by Moliere and tragedies by Shakespeare when Broadway is visited by two famed repertory companies, the British Old Vic and the Jean-Louis Barrault-Madeleine Renaud company of Paris. For George Bernard Shaw's centennial year there is talk of productions of Major Barbara, The Apple Cart and St. Joan, starring Siobhan McKenna. Eugene O'Neill's posthumous drama A Long Day's Journey Into Night (TIME...
...five years. It gives its actors a chance to play in, and its audiences a chance to see, such varied fare as Shakespeare and Beaumarchais, Mauriac and Montherlant. It combines the best of the old and the best of the new in France. Actor-Producer Jean-Louis Barrault once said: "I have a god: the theater. When I entered Le Franç I entered a religion whose temple was La Comédie and whose pope was Moli...