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WHEN AN Irish-American playwright with a tragic soul begins to write comedy, the result is likely to be sentimenality of the worst sort. Ah, Wilderness is that type of play, fare fit for George M. Cohan, perhaps, but hardly the most relevant thing for a post-Beckett audience...
...address on the advantages of flying his line. Next, Wells. Rich turned out a print and television campaign for American Motors Corp. that focused on Chairman Roy Chapin Jr. stressing the moderate prices of AMC models lined up behind him. Soon other chief executives, including TransAmerica's John Beckett. TRW's Horace Armor Shepard and A-T-O Inc.'s Harry Figgie Jr., turned up in their companies' print ads. Not to be outdone, J. Walter Thompson has just produced a Pan American World Airways ad with an oversize photo of President Najeeb Halaby, who seeks...
During a recent visit to Harvard's Loeb Drama Center, the Open Theater demonstrated its traditional expertise at oldfangled script-drama with a superbly subtle production of Endgame. Chaikin himself counterpointed Beckett's black doomsplay with a singsong, smiling-Buddha portrayal of blind, crippled Hamm. Beckett's line, "Nothing is funnier than unhappiness," might have served as production motto...
...stories around. Taken together with his earlier books, Come Back, Dr. Caligari and Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts, the 14 stories of City Life establish him as the master experimentalist of his genre. He is a writer who may well be changing the definition of a short story the way Beckett, Ionesco and Pinter have changed the definition of a play...
Another very important aspect of what one sees when one sees this production is. as I mentioned carlier, a consideration of communication through rhythm, vocal patterns, inflection as really integral to meaning. When we look at the script we come to the conclusion about the importance of verbalizations as Beckett has it, then we must consider how to yerbalize in a way that is special to that material. We looked into the expression of character through vocal elements very, very extensively. Another element of communication is a kind of series of icons, not frozen images at all, but ones...