Word: ibsen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...modern man; The Connection, a relentless study of narcotics and nihilists; The Zoo Story, another Albee commentary, wedded to Samuel Beckett's monologue, Krapp's Last Tape; In the Jungle of Cities, Bertolt Brecht's intriguing early effort; Hedda Gabler, an excellent production of the Ibsen classic; and the durable Brecht-Weill-Blitzstein classic, The Threepenny Opera...
...final insult to Munch, his house was demolished last year because it was considered ugly, whereas Ibsen's study is preserved intact in Oslo's Folkmuseum, and Grieg's house, in Bergen, is a national shrine. The often-quoted ". . . A prophet is not without honor save in his own country"* has never been more appropriate...
...Michael Redgrave's chestnut-haired, statuesque (5 ft. 10½ in.) daughter Vanessa, 24, was appearing in Ibsen's rarely performed The Lady from the Sea as Boletta, the awkward elder daughter, and achieving a superb characterization after years of promising but unspectacular parts. Wrote Kenneth Tynan in the Observer: "If there is better acting than this in London, I should like to hear...
...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 is a mammoth cat house...
...would be absurd to talk about the play, one of Ibsen's greatest dramatic poems, since Ronder offered no interpretation of it at the Loeb. The mad scene was the only really effective one in the badly paced and chaotic production, and it is a pity that I must recommend that it be missed...