Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stylized performances director Peter Frisch elicits from actors conflict with the social realism Wesker has tried too glibly to present, they are coordinated with finely controlled staging that sometimes resembles choreography. Each act builds to an accelerating crescendo of harried activity. Knots of people constantly break and re-form. Two men simultaneously take symmetrical, reclining positions on a table. And in the surrealistic climax every character turns one of his own gestures into a self-parody...
...terraces, one might be on the bridge of an ocean liner. Scanning the Thames from its South Bank, one sees the helmeted dome of St. Paul's to the right, and on the left, the smoothly scalloped arches of Waterloo Bridge. Within the building, the staggered lobby levels form spacious coves of unanticipated intimacy, soon to be thronged with hosts of theatergoers...
...Pairs. At no point in the drafting process for the theaters did Architect Denys Lasdun consider designing for a show of pomp, reports TIME Correspondent Lawrence Malkin. The priority was to make form assist theatrical function. With the Olivier Theater, in particular, consultations occurred between Lasdun and Olivier and such accomplished men of the theater as Directors John Dexter, Peter Brook and Peter Hall himself. The concept emerged of a theater in which, as Lasdun puts it, "an actor could hold an audience in the palm of his hand, and every one of them would have him in his sight...
There is nerve-and then again there is nerve. The kind they have lots of -too much of-in television is exhibited in its ripest form this week (NBC, Wednesday, 9 p.m. E.S.T.) by Jack Lemmon, starring in a remake of John Osborne's The Entertainer. Archie Rice, that talentless, foul-spirited denizen of show biz's low depths, is, of course, the creation and sole property of Laurence Olivier-perhaps the greatest performance in a nonclassic role by the man who is our age's prince of players. There is no hope of duplicating what...
...kind of nerve that raises modest hopes for the medium is, however, available on two other specials. Song of Myself (CBS, Tuesday, 10 p.m. E.S.T.) offers a sketchy biography of Walt Whitman, which is really an excuse to hear a well-selected anthology of his poetry. Poetry in any form is rare on commercial television, and just hearing Whitman well read in a Carl Sandburg singsong by Rip Torn is reason enough for gratitude. But Jan Hartman's script confronts Whitman's homosexuality with good bluntness, and Torn, a gutsy actor who has long deserved better...