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...Baker put it, the Workshop was "not in the usual sense a theater, but rather a working place for the young dramatist, a place in which he has the opportunity to see the play adequately acted before a sympathetic and critical audience." This audience was not the usual crowd which drifts in from the streets. Admission was by in vitiation only and was restricted to "people believed to be deeply interested in such experimentation as the Workshop offers." But more than interest was required of the audience. Within three days after the production the spectator was expected to turn amateur...
Died. Henry Bernstein, 77. hot-tempered French dramatist (he fought twelve duels), best-known for his violently pessimistic plays dealing with thwarted passion (Le Secret, Mélo, Espoir): after a brain tumor operation; in Paris...
...MacLeish's two plays testify to the great strength of his poetry and his versatility as a dramatist. But at the same time they clearly indicate some of the limitations of verse as a dramatic form...
...attracted by the hot springs which gushed from the hillsides, built their sumptuous villas on terraces cut in the slope. Elaborate baths (hot and cold swimming pools with steam rooms, massage and floor shows) cleansed and entertained vacationing senators and consuls. The place acquired a highly questionable reputation. The dramatist Terence wrote: "At Baiae one never knows what the night will bring," and the poet Propertius warned his girl friend that "The waters of Baiae lead to immoral love." At Baiae Nero built the biggest bath, and a vast covered pool. Here he also tried to drown his mother...
Showman in Misalliance Shaw certainly was - far more, indeed, than dramatist. He is armed with a text of sorts - family life in all possible aspects. But far from expounding it from a pulpit, he scatters it bit by bit in a wild game of hare & hounds. Its chief bit is parents & children, a theme for which Shaw had perfect Shavian qualifications: he was never a parent and quite possibly never a child. He effortlessly makes mincemeat of the two distinguished fathers in his play, and little monsters of their daughters & sons. The war between the generations ticked off. he turns...