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...opened with a stern and deliberate production of Lear, followed a night later by a bizarre and romping turn with Max Frisch's The Firebugs. The standard of selection, according to Vaughan, is "classics and could-be classics." The remainder of the season will see productions of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning, and Robert Ardrey's Shadow of Heroes. The theater is housed in the white brick and thermopane 800-seat Seattle Center Playhouse built for last year's World's Fair. And people...
...pieces attempt to represent what six authors--Shakespeare, Chekhov, Ibsen, Wilde, Odets and Williams--might have done with commonplace dramatic themes: love and letters, cuckolds and cash-on-the-line weddings. The "typical Shakesperian clown engages in a "typical" mixup of missives. The deranged Blanche du Bois figure in the Williams parody imagines a Spanish pen pal to take her from the beer-and-beatings world of her Stanley Kowalski type mate...
Something Superhuman. At 64, Carnovsky has played many of the classic character parts - Shylock, Prospero and Chekhov's Uncle Vanya. But Lear, obviously, is something else again, and Carnovsky says that when the role was offered to him he "fainted inside." The part, he says, "demands almost super human strength. The actor must learn to tell the truth...
...fresh and uninhibited talents of such playwrights as Edward Albee (The American Dream), Jack Richardson (Gallows Humor), Jack Gelber (The Connection) and Arthur Kopit (Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad). Such playwrights as Shaw, Ibsen, Chekhov, Moliere, Pirandello and O'Casey -all banished from Broadway on the not unlikely ground that there isn't a theater party blockbuster in the lot-have been persistently tapped off-Broadway. Off-Broadway can also take substantial credit for spurring interest in two modern greats, Eugene O'Neill...
...Brattle Theatre celebrated its tenth anniversary as a motion picture theatre yesterday with an invitational showing of "The Lady with the Dog," a new Russian film based on a story by Anton Chekhov. Regular showings of the film begin today...