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...STREETS OF NEW YORK smiles through the tears in this musical adaptation of one of 19th century Dramatist Dion Boucicault's marshmelodramas about a mortgage-foreclosing cad of a banker. In a properly silly mood, a playgoer can bear with the ancient corn and relish the singing and miming of a stylishly spoofy cast...
That's the trouble. By loading his play with comic lines and humorous situations, Behan makes his audience laugh confusedly through a tragedy. That they laugh may prove to Behan that they are fools, but to me it proves only that a skilled dramatist can confuse his audience...
...like to plot the course of British society now that the imperial ballast is gone, and the old class compass is out of whack. Both work in the theater; Delaney's A Taste of Honey was a hit play when she was 19, and Kops is resident dramatist at the Bristol Old Vic. Both are virtuosos at the art of self-dramatization...
Lulu is indeed a spellbinder, a power ful, unrelenting tragedy of sex. Berg wrote the opera in the early '30s and shaped his libretto from two plays by the great German Dramatist Frank Wedekind (1864-1918), who was obsessed by the fury, the brevity and the desolation of the pursuit of sexual pleasure. As Wedekind's translator put it, "he dealt in 'the hellish drive out of which no joy remains alive.' " In both of his plays, Erdgeist (Earth-Spirit) and Die Büchse der Pandora (Pandora's Box), Wedekind centered this hell...
...well aware that Shaw was constantly proclaiming himself a dramatist far superior to Shakespeare. I am also aware that the Shakespeare Festival in Ontario has broadened its offerings to include Oedipus Rex, Cyrano de Bergerac, and H.M.S. Pinafore. I am a great admirer of Sophocies, Rostand, and Gilbert & Sullivan; but their place is not at a Shakespeare festival...