Word: genet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year has seen a total of 45 student productions on the stages of Sanders Theatre, Agassiz, and various House dining halls. The works ran the theatrical gamut from tragedy to comedy, and from such standard theatre fare as Shaw and Shakespeare to the rarely performed works of Strindberg and Genet...
Production: Genet's "Deathwatch" (John Eyre Presents...
...plays presented at the Yale festival will serve, if not as the basis for a definition, at least as indicators of how this school of drama looks and sounds. For one thing, experimental plays often are topheavy with abstract ideas. Harvard's contribution to the festival, Jean Genet's Death-watch, and the Wellesley production of a dismal little propaganda piece by Bertolt Brecht entitled Exception and the Rule, served to illustrate the experimental playwrights' reliance on ideology...
...sure, all worthwhile plays from any period embody ideas, but writers like Brecht and Genet seem to start not with characters caught in a human predicament but with abstractions such as, in Brecht's case, the evils of capitalism. They then proceed to illustrate their philosophy with a plot and characters chosen on the basis of utility to the ideas under discussion...
...from excellent down to awkward and amateurish efforts. Altogether, however, the standard of the acting was quite high. The best performances were contributed by the members of Harvard's Deathwatch company which featured Harold Scott, Colgate Salsbury, and D.J. Sullivan. They preserved the polish of their work in the Genet play for the Yale showing. Robert Brustein, as Jean, and Carlyn Cahill, as Julie, also turned in a pair of very distinguished performances in the Vassar production of Miss Julie...