Word: denker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus Henry Denker, the author of The Far Country, had a head start when he embarked on his dramatization of Freud's treatment of Elizabeth von Ritter. Whether he increased his lead very much is open to question. There is much to be praised in The Far Country, but there are also some embarrassing weak spots...
...play's outstanding virtue is marvelous economy. Though it is not a particularly easy task to present an entire psychoanalytic study in two and a half hours, Denker does it by omitting needless chaff almost entirely. The result, admittedly, is a somewhat, oversimplified representation, but it is still a remarkable achievement. Very little that is said or done in the bulk of the play lacks purpose, and for this reason it holds audience interest to an extent that I, for one, have rarely seen before...