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...Country (by Henry Denker) concerns Sigmund Freud at 36, when, butting against the wall of medical opposition, he was also breaking through the wall of man's unconscious. It specifically concerns his early and famous patient, the young Viennese Elizabeth von Ritter: through opening the shutters of her mind, which had put fetters on her body, Freud released light that, expanding, would flood modern living and penetrate modern thought. Thanks to a sound union of play and production, A Far Country is very often engrossing...
...Henry Denker's "Give Us Barabbas" stars James Daly as Jerusalem's converted thief, with Kim Hunter and Dennis King. Color...
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...
...debut as a dramatic actor, he chose Material Witness, by Henry (Time Limit) Denker, and the title role of an average householder who sweated out 50 dreary minutes in fear that gangland killers would learn of his presence at one of their crimes. The show was just another dipperful of clabber out of Kraft Theater's antique churn. Berle played the shallowly written role with egregious self-control. Conscious of his dignity as a TV elder statesman, he liked the part because it was, said he proudly, "something unbrash, unflippant and unaggressive-I wanted to get away from...