Word: galileo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...word "for art's sake." In performance, to ignore the revolutionary premise of their work is to castrate the thrust of their dramatics. But in New York, today, Brecht and Shaw are performed as Good Liberals with whom a right-minded audience can curl up and agree. This season Galileo was presented at Lincoln Center by a company which seriously confused it with A Man For All Seasons, and a few years ago Heartbreak House received an all-star Broadway revival, which reduced it to a "high comedy" version of You Can't Take It With...
...GALILEO, by Bertolt Brecht, is like a formal ballet of the mind in which the prince of science and the princes of the church dance out their accustomed roles. Anthony Quayle makes diction a diadem, as he leads the Lincoln Center Repertory Company through a highly creditable production...
WHITSUNDAY SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). An original oratorio, Galileo, has been commissioned to commemorate the appearance of the Holy Spirit to the Apostles on this seventh Sunday after Easter. Libretto by Joe Darion, score by Ezra Laderman, and featuring Basso Ara Berberian as the troubled astronomer...
After a series of ill-starred ventures, the Lincoln Center company has put together a creditable production, and it is luckiest of all in its British star, Anthony Quayle. His Galileo leaps at the tantalizing bait of new knowledge, delivers his lines with a purity that makes diction a diadem, and knows bitterly the heart's blind wounds for which the mind has no tourniquet...
Puntila and His Hired Man, unlike Galileo, resembles a journey without a destination. In Brecht, dramatic conflict does not resolve itself in tragedy as a death struggle between good and evil, but in irony as a life struggle between irreconcilable divisions in the human psyche itself...