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Andorra and The Firebugs. Swiss Dramatist Max Frisch dropped a couple of tons of irony on the New York theater last week, but the only one who got crushed was the playwright. Advance fanfare had it that Frisch, highly regarded and much produced in Europe, was the equal of his fellow countryman Friedrich Duerrenmatt (The Visit). Rarely has anticipation been so swiftly disabused...
...Dumbwaiter and The Collection, by Harold Pinter. In these two one-acters, Britain's most provocative dramatist puts his characters in an enigmatic rat's maze where they twist, turn and stumble, seeking each other and the truth with absurd and terrifying results...
...laid bare to the innards, they are all nullities in essence. The play is about four nobodies; and this too keeps it from reaching the plateau of O'Neill, for one. Month after month of theatrical mediocrity may be the reason that one critic hailed Albee as "a major dramatist, quite possibly the most important playwright since O'Neill, whom he resembles and, in some respects, betters." O'Neill is not that easily surpassed--but this is not the place to dispose of the current cliche that O'Neill's command of the English language was inadequate...
...play is stronger than the players. In his anguished sincerity, in his dogged loyalty to his , own experience, O'Neill sees deeper perhaps than any other dramatist has ever seen into family life. He sees its animal warmth, its blessed monotony, its healing private humor. And he sees all the terrible things people do to each other in the name of love...
...rugged realism, an exquisite humanity, a sense for what is sublime in being human. Now. in a movie that is both a wow of a show and a masterpiece of misanthropy, Kurosawa emerges as a bone-cracking satirist who with red-toothed glee chews out his century as no dramatist has done since Bertolt Brecht...