Word: ibsen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Opera, heading toward its 2,300th performance; The Connection, a now famed pad full of Method hipsters seeking to prove that the opiate of the people is heroin; and Little Mary Sunshine, a boffo operetta satirizing the Kerny, Frimlous past. Among worthy revivals, there is a superlative production of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, a welcome reprise of Epitaph for George Dillon, by John Osborne and Anthony Creighton, and one sleeper, The Octoroon, a reasonably lively, reasonably funny-by-now melodrama of pre-Civil War days...
...toward its 2,300th performance; The Connection, a now-famed pad full of Method hipsters seeking to prove that the opiate of the people is heroin after all; and Little Mary Sunshine, a boffo operetta satirizing the Kerny, Frimlous past. Among worthy revivals, there is a superlative production of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler and a welcome reprise of Epitaph for George Dillon by John Osborne and Anthony Creighton...
...next year Bate pointed out the return of theatre and novel courses--not ably English 160, "Drama since Ibsen;" English 151, "The 19th-Century English Novel;" and English 181, "Narration in the Novel." Edgar Rosenburg, Briggs-Copeland Assistant Professor of English Composition, has been named to teach English...
...short stories by August Strindberg. This juxtaposition is appropriate, because the stories are valuable both as entertainment and as psychological studies. One, the story of dust, is a bitter, sardonic chronicle of a marriage without love, and the other, that of love, is a delightfully pointed satire, of Ibsen's A Doll House...
...original theater, and seems to be settling for a rehash of old material, plus a scattering of pseudo avant-garde plays. While this pattern has proven disappointing to those who still seek new blood and fresh ideas off-Broadway, it provides a comfortable combination of tried theatrical works (Strindberg, Ibsen, and Shaw most conspicuously), with thin, spicy plays designed to quench a respectable suburban thirst for Evil...