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...Moholy Nagy, Malewich and Hannah Hoch more often reflect a kind of experimentalism which hovers tenuously in the nether regions of design, just outside the gates of one muse or another. Every so often, of course, a Mondrian or a Klee comes along who makes something of it. Then cometh the rear guard which inevitably ends up, again, indebted to the theories and left with little else...
...Neill pushed aside the bulky, handwritten manuscripts of his projected nine-play study of the rise and fall of a New England family, and wrote the plays that made him once more the dominant figure of the American theater. In quick succession he ground out The Iceman Cometh, which is flourishing in its second year off-Broadway as a revival, the autobiographical Long Day's Journey Into Night, the season's outstanding drama, and A Moon for the Misbegotten, which will open on Broadway next month...
...Need to Dream. In A Touch of the Poet, O'Neill explores the theme he used in The Iceman Cometh-a man needs to dream-but he laces the bitter, dialectic dialogue between Melody and his family with rollicking humor and blazing theatrics. Melody keeps a thoroughbred mare to bolster his pride, yet forces his daughter to work as a waitress. When he swaggers out to challenge a rich Yankee who has insulted his family, he is beaten into the dust by servants, and his dream world shatters. His daughter, who has ridiculed his false life, is horrified...
Another point is that such drama demands an intimate kind of stage that is utterly unsuited to the stadium-like, hot-dogs-and-soda atmosphere of a large Broadway theatre. The Iceman Cometh, probably the most impressive production last year, depends for its success on the intimate association and communication between actors and audience which the Circle-in-the-Square's arena production can provide. The Three-Penny Opera, also greatly successful both financially and artistically, likewise depends on intimate staging...
...Broadway companies have a life beyond a year or two. When a group is successful, the bright lights who made it so will advance up the ladder to the Broadway stage; if not successful, they will be back pounding the Pavements. For instance, Jose Quintero, director of The Iceman Cometh, directed Long Day's Journey into Night on Broadway. Me Candido, a very warm and pleasant new play presented by a non-profit settlement house group has been sold to the movies; Kim Stanley and many other now successful actors and actresses began their career on the off-Broadway stage...