Word: betty
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Corruption in the Palace of Justice, by Ugo Betti, is about that debased fallen being called Man, who, in some unassailable corner of his tarnished soul, yearns for, reflects, and presupposes a radiant otherness called God. Compared to Justice's rigorous goading of the individual conscience, such religiously oriented plays as Eliot's The Cocktail Party, Greene's The Potting Shed, MacLeish's J.B. and Chayevsky's Gideon seem like Communion services for the morally complacent...
Group I. Two of the three epics in this classification mercifully died on the road during the fall, but others have continued in the face of the TI death warrant, including The Queen and the Rebels, by another mudder among esteemed playwrights, Italian Ugo Betti, who flopped in an off-Broadway production. None of Queen's other participants has a recent Broadway past except for two-time losing Co-Producer Martin Cohen...
Westport, Conn., Country Playhouse: First U.S. performance of Ugo Betti's The Burnt Flower Bed, starring Eric Portman, Signe Hasso and Gloria Vanderbilt...