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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the script alone I couldn't tell whose side Giraudoux was on. And I wasn't even left with that everybody-loses-most-of-the-time wistfulness one feels at the end of most of those. Nineteenth Century demi-tragedies where everybody loses. My only strong emotion was that Lucille was a pretty stupid girl...

Author: By Harrison Young, | Title: Duel of Angels | 10/29/1965 | See Source »

Skip Ascheim directed Giraudoux's "The Apollo of Bellac" in quite a different style, but with almost equal success. The only serious problem was that the play depends entirely on one idea, and consequently sags...

Author: By Harrison Young, | Title: Two Comedies | 5/25/1965 | See Source »

JUDITH. Jean Giraudoux has fashioned a parable on heroism and piety from the story of the Jewess who glorified herself and saved her nation by destroying a conqueror. Rosemary Harris' Judith embraces all the facets of a complex woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 21, 1965 | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

JUDITH. Rosemary Harris is superb as the beautiful Jewess who saved her people by killing an Assyrian conqueror. Jean Giraudoux's skeptical version of the apocryphal story reveals a Judith more womanly than saintly, driven not so much by piety as by a desire for personal glory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 14, 1965 | 5/14/1965 | See Source »

...other two shows produced next Fall will be Jan Giraudoux's The Duel of Angels, directed by Charles N. Ascheim II, 65-3, and William Shakespeare's The Tempest, directed by Timothy S. Mayer '66. Duel of Angels will run from Oct. 28-Nov. 3, and The Tempest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hum 4 to Stage Moliere Comedy At Loeb Theatre | 5/14/1965 | See Source »

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