Word: elia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Former Spencer lecturers include Arthur Miller, author of "Death of a Salesman"; Broadway director Elia Kazan; and poet-author-playwright T. S. Eliot...
...lure and its limitations. Over a peculiarly topical theme of horror-a prepschool boy falsely accused of homosexuality-Playwright Anderson has draped one of the most steadfastly serviceable of methods. Everything in Tea and Sympathy is very much the stuff, and even the sobstuff, of good matinee drama; and Elia Kazan has staged the play with a lively sense of his opportunities...
Directed by Elia (A Streetcar Named...
...even more often arty, but that it exposes decadence with decadent means. Lush and sensational, it uses its material as theatrical hootch; it spells out every sentence and then adds exclamation points. Causes are forgotten in the passion for effects; a vision of Hell dwindles into a Grand Guignol. Elia Kazan has directed the play vividly as a theater piece; he doubtless could not help adding glare to what cries out for shade...
Former Spencer lecturers include director Elia Kazan and poet and author T. S. Eliot...