Word: grosbard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE. Arthur Miller's tragedy of a Brooklyn longshoreman with an incestuous fixation for his niece may be more Freudian than Greek, but it pulses with the fury, pity and seeming inevitability of obsessive self-destruction. Director Ulu Grosbard and an emotionally committed cast have charged this ten-year-old play with electricity and tenderness...
...drab, laconic, colloquial dialogue his characters use, and a few bursts of eloquence might have been risked to vary the tempo of speech. Whoever chose Sheen, Dailey and Albertson for their roles must have been working under a sign of the zodiac favorable to perfect casting, and Ulu Grosbard's direction belongs in the category of craft that conceals craft. In The Subject Was Roses, Broadway has that rarest of dramas, a play that dares to show its face, and not its heels, to reality, and to life...