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...screen this month, the F.B.I. relentlessly tracks down its red prey. But while its success is due to modern science in Walk East on Beacon, it is due on ancient fate and blind luck in The Atomic City . Save for a junior, tow-headed edition of Lanny Budd on a bicycle and a raffle ticket, Joe Stalin might be sitting in the White House even now, the country's cities in ruins...
Chapman is co-author of "Billy Budd," the theatrical adaptation of Herman Melville's novel which has been staged in New York and most recently at the Brattle Theatre. He has been an instructor in English since...
...when the Second Act opens that you realize how grossly this dualism has been presented to you, for the ship's officers who then appear are quite human--and all ably acted. Here the true theme of the play enters, for later, when Billy Budd has killed the lying, all-evil Claggart, almost inadvertently, it is they who must decide whether or not Billy Budd should be executed. This decision represents a choice between justice and maintaining an order by law. It is Captain Vere, the central character of the play, who convinces his fellow officers they must "maintain...
...plot elaborates the Good and Evil theme, to be sure, but not nearly enough to account for the success of this production. That must be owed to the excellent acting of Jerry Kilty as Captain Vere, that of Peter Temple as Claggart, John Kerr, as Billy Budd, and to nearly everyone else in the cast, especially Paul Sparer and Paul Ballantyne, and, of course, to the directing of Albert Marre...
...production which has returned to the Brattle Theatre holds your attention every minute and leaves you with the feeling that you have seen an unusually good dramatic work. It is hard to see how it is done. Certainly the characters, Billy Budd, the personification of good, and Claggart, the personification of evil, are that old morality theme incarnate. And the first act suffers a bit in drawing this Maichean point too bluntly. Maybe you could get away with it in the Nineteenth century, but this is the Twentieth century, and this boy Billy Budd is just a little...