Word: gynt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Toynbee's view, is not simply the Establishment or the Kremlin or the Pentagon but "competitive Individualism, bee-like or antlike Communism, and tribal-minded Nationalism." Such things, Toynbee argues, are responsible for creating "a Boyg-like smog of impersonal relations." Readers of Ibsen's Peer Gynt are expected to recall that the great Boyg is a shapeless cloud "neither dead nor alive; all slime and mistiness." There is really no way to get at Boyg; he "doesn't strike" and prefers to "get all he wishes by gentleness." Ibsen's folk hero Peer is softly...
...Schildkraut, 68, Vienna-born actor who won star billing on Broadway in 1921 as the carnival barker in Molnar's Liliom, parlayed his talents into more than 60 screen roles, two dozen onstage, 80 on television, commencing with romantic leads in his salad days (Ibsen's Peer Gynt, Benvenuto Cellini in The Firebrand), evolving into character parts such as Papa Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...Composer Larry Austin, protege of Darius Milhaud. Painters Wayne Thiebaud and Roland Petersen help make Davis tops in art among Cal campuses. Drama boasts talented young acting students with a beard or two, and this year's visiting lecturer, Director Joseph Schildkraut, has already staged an excellent Peer Gynt. Symbolic of the times, the old Davis livestock judging barn is being remodeled as a Shakespearean theater...
Paul Ronder, who directed, apparently believed that Ibsen hadn't put quite enough sex into Peer Gynt, so he added some. Early in the play, Peer is supposed to be picked up by three lascivious young ladies, all of whose desires he satisfies in the course of an evening. Ibsen leaves the actual act of intercourse to the imagination of the audience by having Peer and the vixens dance off stage together. Not so Ronder. Three young ladies, self-consciously displaying their breasts, crawled all over poor Peer, who lay at the front of the stage...
Thomas Griffin played the title role with all the gusto of a "Beat" "Method" actor playing himself. There was no appreciable difference between the young Peer Gynt, the middle aged Peer Gynt, and the tired, old Peer Gynt. A part of the trouble was that he wore almost no makeup (how a twenty year old actor is supposed to look sixty without the help of makeup beats me), but a more significant trouble was that he had no sense of his physical presence on the stage. His voice never varied, his posture never changed; he was dwarfed...