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The play's hero, Emile Magis (Dick Shawn), is poor, wistful and young, and he yearns to crack the shell of "the egg," as he calls middle-class society. If he can live up to the rules of "the system," Emile reasons, he will stop being an outsider. The...
For a time, Emile enjoys a mindlessly sensual affair with a married woman (Janet Ward). But the lure of the egg is too strong. He marries a bureaucrat's daughter and becomes a civil servant. When his wife is unfaithful, Emile turns venal and takes money from her lover...
The Egg has been directed for its racy blue lines rather than its wry black comedy theme. Dick Shawn is miscast as Emile. He is funny, versatile and energetic, but he lacks what the role most needs-lack of confidence. The world is
The son of a Copenhagen construction worker, Pedersen did not decide to become a painter until, at the age of 20, he fell in love with a girl named Else, who was a painter herself. The next year, in 1934, the two got married. Pedersen never saw any point in...
Tutors & Masters. The daughter of a Portuguese economist who died when she was two, Maria Vieira da Silva was raised by her mother and an uncle, who provided her with a string of tutors and encouraged her to become an artist. "They were like children who had a doll that...