Word: giraudoux
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...Blakemore, who defected from the National in the mid-'70s, were both holdovers from the reign of Olivier, Hall's predecessor.) Then Pinter, whose plays Hall had been directing since 1962, felt abandoned when Hall left for Bayreuth just as Pinter was staging a troubled production of Giraudoux's The Trojan War Will Not Take Place at the National. Without alerting Hall in advance, Pinter resigned as an associate director of the theater. Last week Pinter told TIME, "The fundamental problem of the National Theater is that its artistic director spends a great deal of his time...
Sometimes the reworking of a classic can produce ironic historic resonances, as in Jean Giraudoux's sophisticated reshaping of the Greek myths. At other times, sloppy, inane, incongruous desecration masquerades as creative reincarnation, and the people involved spout rubbish about "making the work speak to our own time." In the present instance, Joseph Papp, who took over as director from Andrei Serban and at whose off-Broadway Public Theater Alice in Concert is being presented, reveals no guiding wisdom or purpose...
...begged her to marry him, but she danced mockingly out of reach. The poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal, who saw in her "something of a lascivious young god in girl's clothes," confessed she caused him "a mysterious and sometimes very painful feeling of needing." Proust, Montesquiou, Rodin, Rilke, Giraudoux and George Moore were all bewildered or enslaved...
...Roland Barthes believes a large part of the tower's fascination is its "fully useless" quality: "It achieved absolute zero as a monument." In a 1975 book, Author Joseph Harriss makes the same point: "Parisians have always recognized the human need for the superfluous." The late playwright Jean Giraudoux, who was born around the time of the tower's conception, came to its defense. It has reached an age, he observed, "when one likes to have children-and American girls-crawling all over...
France, too, has an emergent superstar. Isabelle Adjani, 19, is "the only actress who has made me cry in front of a television screen," said Director François Truffaut after seeing her in Giraudoux's Ondine. Truffaut signed her for an epic role, the doomed daughter of Victor Hugo in The Story of Adele H, to be released this fall. "I wanted to do a film with her very quickly," he explained, "because I thought I could steal from her those precious things-the way her face and body express everything...