Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Streetcar, I'm afraid the protagonist of the play has not. This is not Stanley's play nor ever will be, and to try and make it so by removing every trace of grace and nobility from Blanche, leaving her as little more than a drunken whore, is hardly fair to Mr. Williams. Once this is done, the play is no longer Blanche's tragedy, nor does it become Stanley's triumph, but rather an extended sort of fertility rite. "Procreative power" without some sort of intellectual substantiation does not make an exciting theatre, I'm afraid. Mr. Rabb...
...tasks which Messrs. Titcomb et al. have seen fit to assign me is the reviewing of second rate dramatic productions. I found that Fair Game, which opened and closed at the Boston Summer Playhouse last week, fell easily in this category...
With some direction, and realignment by Adler, Fair Game could have been a fresh Sam Levenesque comedy. It wasn't. Fair Game was to have been the first production in a season package: the remainder of the season has been cancelled and the Summer Playhouse will announce a replacement next week...
...argued that the Communists' censorship of all but approved foreign authors was a fair indication of their intellectual freedom, and the suppression of Tibet typified China's disregard for agreements and readiness to settle issues by force...
Admittedly this is a debatable opinion; those who swoon at "Sweet Nightingale" or "Fain Would I Wed a Fair Young Maid" will contest strongly any attempt to shroud Dyer-Bennett with the critic's cloak of scorn. Yet for one who seeks in a folk singer a versatility extending beyond repertory, including a versatility of personality, Dyer-Bennett falls short of being engaging...