Word: durrenmatt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Temple University audience that included many clergymen and nuns was stunned by the sex, brutality and abrasive language of a play called The Meteor. Nor did the playwright ease their discomfort, as he accepted an honorary D.Lit. before the final performance at Temple's Tomlinson Theater. Friedrich Durrenmatt, 48, irreverent son of a Protestant minister, read his acceptance speech seated on a rumpled bed on the play's set-the same bed where, a few minutes later, a naked woman sprawled as her husband painted her portrait. Said the Swiss dramatist: "My academic career has now been successfully...
DUNSTER'S production of the Durrenmatt-Gore Vidal play Romulus excellently reflects the dual nature of the work. It reminds one of many French plays (especially those of Cocteau, Anouilh and Giraudoux) both witty and superficial on one hand, and intensely intellectual and philosophical on the other. The problem of mounting such a production on the amateur level is obvious: the recruitment of actors to perform characters who can simultaneously embrace these conflicting elements...
Surrounding these two plays will be Die Schauspieltruppe Zurich's repertory of playwrights Durrenmatt, Frisch and Goethe (late September) and the Oxford-Cambridge Players' Twelfth Night (December). Last season, only the latter troupe attracted a large student audience to the Loeb, and their work was enthusiastically received. This year's production is directed by Jonathan Miller, Beyond the Fringe alumnus and one of the funniest men alive...
There is an extraordinary play, The Visit, at the Loeb now, and director Kenneth Tigar has turned it into an enchanting production. The Visit is not an easy play to produce because much of the life in Friedrich Durrenmatt's topsy-turvy world depends on the complexity of his characters. The actors, without exception, were equal to the complexity, and Tigar was more than equal to the task of interpretation...