Word: gunman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presented two "established" works, in order to arouse interest in its later student-written productions. The Twelve Pound Look, by J. M. Barrie, forms a delightful one-act entree. But it precedes a main dish that is not so tempting, for Sean O'Casey's Shadow of a Gunman is a confusing play. The chief trouble with this presentation is its selection in the first place. The acting, however, in both these productions is skillful...
Shadow of a Gunman is less successful. To be fully effective, O'Casey's play demands a studied performance, with its various parts considerably underplayed in order to achieve perspective and continuity. None of the actors in the New Theatre Workshop's presentation even attempted such an approach. If director Dean Gitter had tried to stifle their buoyancy, he would have overcome one weakness in the production. But it is the play, more than the acting, that is inadequate. Taken as a whole, the story is confusing, at times almost wild. Heavy Irish brogues hardly improve the clarity. Instead...
Along with Rufus Marsh, Gitter himself rounds out the list of tenants in the cast. One good directing touch comes in the last scene, when he has the poet turn his back to the audience in despair. Shadow of a Gunman may not warrant a wildly enthusiastic audience this afternoon and evening, but it certainly deserves a critical...
...Theater Workshop will open its season today with two one-act plays: J. M. Barrie's "Twelve Pound Look" and Sean O'Casey's "The Shadow of a Gunman...
While cables passed back and forth, fresh violence boiled up. In one town masked terrorists disarmed, bound and gagged five constables; in another a gunman shot and critically wounded a British mining engineer. In still another a Greek Cypriot policeman fell dead from an assassin's bullet. In the week's worst incident, as reported by one newsman, chivalry caused a British retreat. As British troops approached a village near the Baths of Aphrodite, they were met by a solid phalanx of island women, Aphrodite's daughters shielding Ares' stone-hurling sons. Thus protected...