Word: giraudoux
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plays, each running two weeks. Sheridan's The School for Scandal, the current production runs until July 5. From July 8 to July 19, the Players will stage Arthur's Miller's Death of a Salesman. For the remainder of the summer, The Merchant of Venice, Pygmalion, and Jean Giraudoux's Tiger at the Gates will appear...
...Though primarily a teachers' college, graduates do desert from the teaching profession," he said. The Ecole thus claims renowned representatives in diverse fields, Seznec added, naming Jean Paul Sartre, Jean Prevost, Jules Romains, and Jean Giraudoux...
...lady is, of course, Countess Aurelia--the title personage of Jean Giraudoux's The Madwoman of Chaillot (La folle de Chaillot). Giraudoux wrote three versions of this play shortly before he died in 1944. Had he lived longer he could not have improved it much; indeed, the mad tea party is absolutely perfect. He never wrote a greater play, and only his Electre can perhaps equal...
...Giraudoux's dialogue is dazzlingly witty, and one side-splitting line follows another. The style survives Maurice Valency's translation very well indeed and Warren Enters has staged the work admirably. On opening night some of the cast had trouble with a few lines, but all should be running smoothly...
...Giraudoux's views of the world through rose-colored glasses, his frothy creation, a cake with two layers of pink frosting on top, and his celestial wedding of irony and humor charm us. With numerous improvements, the Tufts production should be a delightful evening's entertainment...