Word: d
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Delicate Balance, two other Albee plays, The Zoo Story and Everything in the Garden Arthur Miller is represented by The Price and The Crucible, Tennessee Williams by Kingdom on Earth, and Eugene O'Neill by A Moon for the Misbegotten. There was Anabaptist and King John by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, three Shakespeares, two Sartres, Sophocles' Oedipus, Brecht's Threepenny Opera, Shaw's Pygmalion, a Renaissance knockabout by Niccolò Machiavelli, a late 19th century melodrama by French Primitive Painter Henri Rousseau, works by Wilde, Sheridan and Molière-besides three plays by Czech author...
...Russians and to their native hardliners, Czech directors have repeatedly put on Western plays with themes of conscience and freedom. They have reached back for historical plays that echo themes of patriotism, power and treachery. The most arresting of these is King John, in the recent adaptation by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, which turns Shakespeare's melodrama into a brutal and very moving confrontation of activist idealism with the chill realities. Suddenly, also, there is great theatrical interest in the Hussites. Several plays have been put on or are due next season about this Czech religious reform movement that...
...snippy, nubile hitchhiker named Ella (Judy Geeson). In a little black notebook, Ella has been rating her loves the way a teacher marks her pupils. After a night in a Birmingham hotel, she grants the salesman an A minus, a mark that prompts him to give his wife a D...
...beat you out of there--I'll beat you out of there." The scream came from a young woman who'd been pacing up and down the hall. Her face was flushed and contorted. Again and again she raised her clenched fists to strike at her stomach. It was a scene she re-enacted many times and which would later echo painfully in my mind...
...year I had worked with a patient trying to bring him out and stimulate his interest in some direction. Often he'd gotten up and left at the first opportunity. It was easier to withdraw, to live in a fantasy world. Other people, other tings disrupt that self constituted equilibrium and bring to mind the memory of an inability to cope with the trials of the real world. The reclusive life of a mental hospital is a respite from the anguishing pace of "the outside," but as time passes, unless patients maintain some sort of contact with the outside...