Word: didacticism
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At a time when contemporary American drama consists largely of stillborn carbon copies of Ibsen, Shaw and Chek- hov, Kerr departs from realism, naturalism and contemporary social problems. Turning to Aristophanic comedy and American history, he weaves a very refreshing and unusual play that injects new life and variety into...
Usually Man and Superman is produced without the Don Juan interlude because the rest of the play is long and the interlude is to some extent extraneous to the action. Director Jerome Kilty was wise, however, to include it, for not only does it make the play a whole, but...
This is all very peculiar in a writer who is making stories from ideas, a writer who got an M.A. from Harvard in '29, a writer whose work is essentially didactic. To find a man whose primary purpose is not only to amuse but to educate, whose primary concern is...
The literature of every decade offers a classic confrontation which is both symbol and caricature of the prevailing conflict of ideas. In the books of the '20s the disenchanted and emancipated young confronted their hypocritical elders. In the '30s the worker at the barricades shook his fist at...
While it suffers from being more didactic than the play, the movie most conspicuously lacks the understatement which the play's single set for instance, made possible. The camera ranges after Tom as he goes to the beach, the golf course, the school pajama party, and even to the rooms...