Word: ibsenism
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...WILD DUCK - Ibsen made to look alive by sheer force of acting...
...name of such a man as Hilaire Belloe, for instance, was the subject of much conflict of opinion. He was characterized impartially as an American lawyer, an Irish novelist, an American poetess, and a French pugilist. Even such a literary figure as Henrik Ibsen had his "Hedda Gabler" described as an insect...
Michel Auclair. This play, sponsored by the Provincetown group, is a pledge of lost hopes, a souvenir of misshapen direction. The author (Charles Vildrac) is a sort of French Barrie, here perverted into a casual Ibsen. He makes a pretty world for himself out of nice books and brotherly love, ruling out the flesh and the devil. His hero is a young man who is both those Siamese twins of psychology, Dr. Coue and Dr. Frank Crane. The idealist returns from a year in Paris to his village and, finding his fiancee the wretched wife of a doltish sergeant, fulfills...
...Wild Duck. Ibsen† has become altogether too much a playwright of the printed page in our theatre. His works are rather reverenced than revived. Accordingly, it is immensely satisfying to see The Wild Duck live again in a conspicuously competent production of The Actors' Theatre. It provides an evening of exacting search through the mind and the emotions. This search is rewarded by one of the two or three most satisfying experiences in the season's schedule...
...violent controversy has arisen over the acting of Warburton Gamble in the part of the father of the house. He made him a silly "showoff" type and as such drew a perfect picture. Objectors swear that there was a deeper thrust of idealistic sincerity to the part as Ibsen wrote it. If this is your reading of the play, Mr. Gamble was exceedingly inept. Blanche Yurka, Tom Powers and a newcomer named Helen Chandler are three perform ers that fully merit the oft misused word "scintillating." Such a combination of ideas and interpretation is indeed rare in the playgoer...