Word: ibsenism
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...most outstanding features of the current performance are a glaring disunity of direction, bad characterization, and bad technique, all of which serve to transform Ibsen's social drama into a mere drawing room conflict between husband and wife...
...adaptation has also lost much of the dramatic effect which Ibsen originally wrote into the last act. Here, deciding that she must fight against the social convention of the Victorian Era, Nora decides to leave her husband. But the emotional impact which the climax originally possessed has been entirely lost, as the script drags unwholesomely at that point. Too much time is lost in meaningless dialogue between Nora and her husband to retain any of the effect...
...history." When the wake ended, Actress Taylor (who is 61) was well on in middle age, very choosy-and good roles for her did not grow on trees. Says she: "It was either acting old mountaineer crones who spit tobacco juice in their son's eye-or Ibsen. I couldn't chew tobacco and I wouldn't be found dead in A Doll's House...
Denunciations & Epiphanies. Other aspects of Joyce's intense life which are more extensively and dramatically reported in the first draft are his wild hero worship of Ibsen ("Ibsen has the temper of an archangel"), his fierce denunciations of things Irish ("I don't think the Irish peasant represents a very admirable type of culture"), the "plague of Catholicism," and the Jesuits ("He spurned before him the stale maxims of the Jesuits and . . . swore an oath that they should never establish over him an ascendancy...
...clearly the occasion, and not the play - Ibsen's Peer Gynt - that made tickets scarcer than hen's eggs and fetched everybody from Noel Coward in specs to G.I. William Saroyan. But Lady Colefax's typical suspiration, "If one's friends will put on Peer Gynt, one must see it," changed to enthusiasm as Ibsen's murky poetic drama, in a fresh translation by Norman Ginsbury, took on pace and clarity. When Peer made love to fat, giggling Anitra, the audience whooped. When he was crowned Emperor in a madhouse, everybody got goose pimples. With...