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These techniques particularly suit plays, like The Caretaker, treating the incapacity for action. Nothing really happens in the play. An aged derelict, a beggar who preserves the fiction of being a choosier, is taken in by a young man trying to fix up an apartment building owned by his brother...
...tragic, disquieting calm. Since he lacks power to implement them, his compassion and his forgiveness to Cordelia serve only to pain him. In the final scene, deep in grief over Cordelia's death, Carnovsky distractedly twines his hair. It knots, like the hair of Poor Tom the Bedlam beggar. Stripped of authority Lear...
...playwrights are cross-pollinating all over the theatrical garden. Peter Brook directed Flower Drum Song, The Visit, Irma La Douce and King Lear (with Paul Scofield) in New York, and he has designed productions for Co vent Garden and the Metropolitan Opera. For the movies, he directed Olivier in Beggar's Opera, Belmondo and Moreau in Moderate Cantabile, and Lord of the Flies. The controversial Marat/Sade is also his. Robert Bolt, who wrote the screenplays for Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago, and who wrote the play A Man for All Seasons, is now cranking up the screenplay...
...BEGGAR, by F. M. Esfandiary. In this ghastly little parable, an Iranian-in-exile ironically illustrates the intrinsic injustice of human justice...
...BEGGAR, by F. M. Esfandiary. The injustice of justice and the crime of punishment are shrewdly displayed in this fiercely ironical parable-composed by an Iranian-in-exile-that demonstrates how the devil takes the hindmost when men play...