Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SPACE ODYSSEY. Director Stanley Kubrick deploys all the dazzling devices of the space age in this cosmic parable of the history and future...
PETULIA. A thick-skinned doctor (George C. Scott) and a flipped-out wife (Julie Christie) make an odd pair of lovers in Director Richard Lester's portrait of a decidedly modern romance...
Another thing: this crowd's seen zillions of war movies, some of them many times on late night television and in the contiguous theatres on Washington St. They know the war movie formula. And when director John Wayne departs from it to throw in a little (or, more frequently, a lot of) anti-liberal propoganda, the war movie vets know they're getting a sermon. Not that they don't like the message; they probably groove on it a whole...
There are plays and plays. Some should not be adapted or altered for performance on stage, but equally, there are other plays that positively need to be clamped down to a specific interpretation. Anouilh's "Waltz of the Toreadors" is one of the latter kind and suffers when a director is not willing to take liberties with the material, to chop and focus on some particular human experience...
Thus the General, played by Ronald Hunter, is kept fulminating for the whole time at a steady roar--the wit of so many of his lines gets lost in the over-blown bustle. This is not the actor's fault but follows from the director's faulty conception of the play. Hunter is more controlled in the scene (in both senses of the word) with his bedridden wife (Sheila Hart...