Word: dolle
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...American Plan in three ways: it offered audiences individual transistor radios to hear about what was happening on the stage, it permitted curtain calls, and it cut its usual five-hour performances to three. On its opening bill were an adaptation of a classic 15th-century No drama, a doll or puppet play, and a work of late 19th-century "realism." Whatever their genre, all three are some times elaborately, sometimes delicately stylized, even to their high-pitched speech; far from merely accepting stage artifices, they glory in them and glorify them. The result is often a triumph of manner...
...doll play, telling of a blind man and his wife who commit suicide, and of a goddess who restores them to life, scores chiefly through details and through Utaemon VI's acting as the woman. To a Westerner, the snail-paced story seems more often theatrically trite than poetically touching. On the other hand, the final play-telling of a rich provincial who falls in love with a courtesan and tries, with tragic consequences, to buy her out of her brothel-has not only pictorial charm but genuine story and character interest. Here Grand Kabuki conveys very well...
Falstaff very much holds the stage here, now in witty talk of this or that, now in tavern scenes with Doll Tearsheet or Mistress Quickly, now in his travels through the Gloucestershire of Shallow and Silence. He is still marvelously exuberant, ingenious, incorrigible, but his revels are now ending. He and his cronies, whether sluts or simpletons, are tarnished with age and touched with pathos. But. more than that. Henry IV draws near his end, and soon a playboy Hal's untroubled head must wear the crown. Shakespeare now, against the last thinned merrymaking of rascals, counterposes the making...
...radiant with uplift, but "there can be no valid moral objection to the exposure of this sort of sin in human nature." The only Tennessee Williams product ever condemned by the Roman Catholic Legion of Decency, Williams' brother points out, was the film Baby Doll, and the problem there lay more in Hollywood than in Tennessee: the long, "morally offensive" seduction scene between Carroll Baker and Eli Wallach was played without dialogue, and the playwright, therefore, "was not in the least responsible." With Douay-eyed insistence, Dakin reports: "Tennessee is really looking for God ... He is searching for pardon...
...used to import their art now decorate their homes with Sidney Nolan's poetic visions of Australia's "outback," William Dobell's savagely realistic portraits, or the landscapes of the late Aborigine Albert Na-matjira. And with Ray Lawler's play, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll-which got raves in London-Aussie audiences for the first time accorded box-office success to a play by an Australian about Australians in the Australian language...