Word: gabriels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ibsen's "John Gabriel Borkman" is the third of the three plays to be offered by the newly formed American Repertory Theater during its Boston run. Although the A. R. T. was organized to bring to the American stage plays which otherwise might not reach the boards, one id tempted to ask, as with their production of "Henry VIII," why this particular play was chosen for revival. For aside from its value as a specimen of Ibsen's development as a playwright, "John Gabriel Borkman" is a sodden and scarcely believable play...
Shubert:Happy Birthday Plymouth: Present Laughter Opera House: Song of Norway Ballet Russe (next week) Wilbur: Born Yesterday Colonial: John Gabriel Borkman Symphony Hall: Kreisler Templeton Hayes Jordan Hall: Josh Whte Winslow Posset
...that fellow Gabriel Whoosis, with his "Ah, there's news tonight." . . . There's those mournful serial programs, all unhappiness and grief...
...which will pour a variety of dramatic experiences not available at your neighborhood theatre. Others explain the aim of a repertory company as the staging of classic vehicles, well-known, well-read, but seldom seen--such as this company has done in "Henry VIII" and will do with "John Gabriel Borkman." The actual merit of the production is secondary to the fact that interested spectators are seeing, in ideal repertory offerings, things that were destined for the stage and have, by changes in modern tastes and temperaments, been relegated to the closet...
...visitors had better ponies but considerably less experience than the white-shirted U.S. veterans. But at any rate, Mexico's polo-playing President Manuel Avila Camacho was satisfied that his hand-picked team of brothers-José, Alejandro, Guillermo and Gabriel Gracida-had been beaten by the best team the U.S. could muster. The scores...