Word: giradoux
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quibble with acting, in this case, is not to question the success of the play. There probably will be people who don't think This Sort of Thing should be put on by a Harvard dramatic group. They are wrong; this Kaufman and Hart is as good theater as Giradoux and as some Shakespeare. The HDC has a fine show this fortnight...
...Harvard Dramatic Club has a treat in store for you at Sanders Theater this weekend. "Amphitryon 38" is a sparkling theaterpiece that has delighted audiences and playwrights through thirty-eight versions, beginning with that of Plautus--down through Moliere, Dryden, to the late Jean Giradoux. It has possibly become more polished each time, for this most recent telling could hardly glisten more than it does...
...remember in second-year Latin the story about Hercules that began: "Hercules was the son of the mortal maiden Alkmena who was visited by the God Jupiter?" That left a lot unsaid. M. Giradoux (through his translator S. N. Behrman) now says the rest. The fact that he really has little to say and says it with too many words does not particularly matter. It is a talky play, but the talk is nimble. The story itself is simple, little more than an extended practical joke. There are no memorable lines or take-home gags; it is rather an exercise...
Alkmena was probably one of the few hausfraus in ancient drama. She was, as she says, just a middle-class mortal. Following this tradition, Giradoux's Alkmena is a tender, faithful, loving wife with no desire to fulfill her destiny with Bulfinch's mythology. In the role, Anna Prince was all that Giradoux requires and brought, in addition, a certain luxuriousness to the part that added immeasurably to the play. Unfortunately, however, Miss Prince is not always understandable. Striving for variety in her voice, some of her lines became lost in a flood of sheer inflection. With that corrected, Miss...
...Amphitryon 38," which is adapted from a farce by Jean Giradoux, reveals the philanderings of Jupiter, the master of the gods, who woos and conquers Alkmena, the wife of Amphitryon, the famous Theban general...