Word: ibsen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Look Up and Live (CBS, 10:30-11 a.m.). A condensation of Henrik Ibsen's Brand...
...male fantasies. In Hemingway there are only two kinds of women-the bitches like Margaret Macomber who shoots her husband the moment he displays courage, and the somnambules like Maria, who sleepwalks into Robert Jordan's sleeping bag. Lady Brett Ashley is a special breed, a likable bitch. Ibsen's Nora wanted to be her own woman. Promiscuous, aggressive Brett, with her habit of calling everybody "chap," is both her own woman and her own man, with the fatal sterility of being able to give herself...
There might have been great modern "prose tragedy," argues Steiner, if contemporary playwrights had modeled themselves on Ibsen and Chekhov. The weakness of this argument is that some did, without achieving any notably tragic vision. Shaw proved that there could be a laughing Ibsen, and wrote social-uplift comedies, while someone like Odets became the subway Chekhov, oozing lower-middle-class pathos...
...vast brothel. Rising Dramatist Edward Albee, who has not yet written a full-length play, has built a reputation on lonesco-like one-acters, of which The American Dream and The Death of Bessie Smith are now on view. Also recommended: Hedda Gabler, with Anne Meacham doing Ibsen to the hilt-and Under Milk Wood, a fine performance of Dylan Thomas' ribald and rueful elegy to a little Welsh town...
...full-length play, has built a reputation on Ionesco-like one-acters, of which The American Dream and The Death of Bessie Smith are now on view. The classics are represented by an exciting and remarkably durable Hamlet at the Phoenix, and by Hedda Gabler, with Anne Meacham doing Ibsen to the hilt...