Word: ibsenism
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...Wild Duck. Henrik Ibsen asked men and women to be honest with themselves. He saw most human beings as hypocrites of the heart, defilers of the mind, and desiccators of the spirit. In his plays he waged an inexorable assault on the timid frauds, the sick souls, and audaciously exposed social dry rot. Integrity was his dramatic Excalibur. The profound irony of The Wild Duck is that it unflinchingly examines the human havoc that can result from so ruthless a devotion to honesty...
...Wild Duck is cozy when it should be caustic, chucklesome when it should roar with outraged laughter, genteelly aggrieved when it ought to be spurting pain. The APA troupe does its customarily accomplished job of acting and touches off sporadic match flares of understanding throughout the play, but Ibsen had a crueler intention: to drag everything and everyone screaming into unrelenting light...
...currently starring as a bedazzling Lady Teazle in Sheridan's The School for Scandal, put on by the Association of Producing Artists, now established as New York's most professional repertory theater. Before the season is out, she will be playing in APA productions of Pirandello, Ibsen, Shakespeare and a rerun of You Can't Take It With You. In addition to all that diversity on Broadway and in touring stints in Toronto, Ann Arbor and Los Angeles, she will be seen this week in NBC-TV's Hallmark Hall of Fame playing Elvira in Blithe...
...Henrik Ibsen once observed that in seafaring Norway "everyone ought to be ready to take the helm." Norwegians take Ibsen at his word. With a population of only 3,700,000, Norway has 372 shipping lines and accounts for 10% of all the merchant ships at sea. Aiming for an even greater share of what is elsewhere considered a depressed indus try, the aggressive Norwegians have ordered, at a cost of $1.1 billion, nearly 20% of all the new merchant vessels under construction throughout the world...
...Producing Artists, which established its Broadway beachhead last fall with a successful revival of You Can't Take It With You, will be around for the whole season. The APA company, adorned by Helen Hayes, Ellis Rabb and Rosemary Harris, will range from Shakespeare and Sheridan to Ibsen and Pirandello...