Word: graphics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Director Andrzej Wajda displays more concern with people than ideas, with the emotions of his heroes than with the symbols of any system. His style is disjunctive and expressionistic, but it is also clear and direct. With a fluid, strikingly graphic technique, he achieves some memorable metaphors: the mad, drunken celebration of victory to Chopin's Polonaise in A Major; the ironic reflection of V-E day fireworks in a stagnant pool, beside which the Communist boss lies dead; the lovers in a ruined church, its Christ figure splintered and dangling upside down in the foreground; Maciek setting fire...
...FLASH WE PROTEST YOUR GRAPHIC BUT UNDERDEVELOPED EXPOSURE OF OUR DON WRIGHT. HE HAS BEEN, HE IS, AND WE HOPE HE ALWAYS WILL BE A STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE MIAMI "NEWS" AND NOT THE FORT LAUDERDALE "NEWS...
...pleasantly surprised to see Munch's beautiful painting, The Cry, reproduced on your cover. When Munch died in 1944, he left the majority of his life's work, 1,200 paintings, 3,000 drawings and 12,000 graphic works, to the municipality of Oslo, his native city. All of these works are now a part of the Oslo Municipal Art Collection, and are to be housed in a separate building to be known as the Munch Museum. It is now 16 years since Munch's death, and this museum is hardly started...
...Wood, a lyrical evocation of the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas' imaginary town; Call Me by My Rightful Name, a fresh look at interracial misfits by new Playwright Michael Shurtleff; The American Dream, Edward Albee's quietly angry, queerly comic comment on modern man; The Connection, a notoriously graphic portrait of some beatniks with golden arms; The Zoo Story, another Albee study, teamed with Samuel Beckett's monologue, Krapp's Last Tape; In the Jungle of Cities, far-out but fascinating early play by Bertolt Brecht; and the already classic Brecht-Weill-Blitzstein musical, The Threepenny Opera...
Among the better evenings: Call Me By My Rightful Name, an interracial-triangle drama; The Connection, Jack Gelber's graphic re-creation of a junkie's pad; The American Dream, Edward Albee's surrealistic situation comedy; The Zoo Story, Albee's famed mano a mano between Natural and Ivy League Man, running on a double bill with Samuel Beckett's lucid monologue, Krapp's Last Tape; Hedda Gabler, another excellent production in the Fourth Street Theater's Ibsen series; The Balcony, French Playwright Jean Genet's superb argument that the world...