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...plays. O'Neill's almost mystic affinity for the sea was probably the only untormented love that his lonely, brooding, haunted spirit ever knew. O'Neill's late period, in which he exorcised the ghosts of the past and reached commanding stature as a dramatist, is pre-eminently represented by The Iceman Cometh (his vision at the approach of death) and Long Day's Journey into Night (the reconciliation with his family which he could not achieve while his family lived...
When a mature dramatist of international distinction writes a feeble, pointless play, a feeling of sadness and embarrassment clings to the event. Is it, one asks, a temporary lapse, or is it evidence of declining powers? Whichever it is, Arthur Miller has come a cropper in The Creation of the World and Other Business...
...roar, there is seemingly no way that it could come from that sunken chest - but it does. To say that Treigle steals the show from Sills is merely to concede that opera, like the novel and the stage, often lives by virtue of its bad guys. Or, as the dramatist J.M. Barrie put it, "Heaven for climate, hell for company...
...Journey may be the Laocoön of plays-a doomed family tragically locked in the serpentine coils of the past. The play seems to grow with each revival, and the present National Theater production is the best ever. Witnessing an Olivier undertake a great role by a great dramatist is like watching a god serve a god. One also watches how an incomparable actor shifts his centers of strength. This time, Olivier's eyes seem dominant-wide, melancholy pools of bruised wisdom, anvils sparked with anger, slits of caustic contempt...
Died. Jules Remains, 86, French epic novelist, dramatist and poet and founder of the philosophy of unanimism; in Paris. Though his massive output since the turn of the century included successful plays, philosophical essays and mildly erotic fiction, Romains' masterwork was his 27-volume historical novel, Les Hommes de Bonne Volonte (Men of Goodwill). Fifteen years in the writing, with a cast of over 400 characters, the work embodies Remains' unanimist philosophy that man can only be fully defined in the context of the religious, familial and social groups to which he belongs. After completing the final volumes...