Word: deja
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Aaron's slum scenes, while effective, have an air of deja vu about them, and, at least at the dress rehearsal Lattended, the murders were sadly disappointing. More work may have been done on the show since then, but The Doctor and the Devils would be out of place on the stage even in the best of circumstances. It is a movie script. Its dozens of locales need dozens of settings; its fades and cuts and dissolves must be quicker and cleaner than the be-tiptoed blackouts that are necessary in the theatre. Much of the work's quality...
...merveilleux, une belle anguille, avec un sens si exact de la modulation scenique. Il faut signaler aussi Marcelle Ranson si accomplie dans le role d'Albine, et Claude Martin (Burrhus), qui d'une maniere brusque mais touchante prononce le jugement definitif sur Neron: "Ses yeux indifferents ont deja la constance/D'un tyran dans le crime endurci des l'enfance...