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...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...
...extremely pleased when on campus after campus he is questioned incessantly on Brecht's theatrical contributions. "People might think that a playwright is not popular until he is successful on Broadway," he observes, "but the student, interest, after all, reflects a real popularity. And when you think about it, Ibsen never was successful on Broadway; nor Strindberg; nor many truly great authors...
...been busy constructing her own five-foot shelf of bibliophilic ballets: Medea, Romeo and Juliet, Miss Julie. Last week she was in Manhattan to witness the premiere by the American Ballet Theatre of her latest work, titled Lady from the Sea, based on a moderately successful play by Henrik Ibsen...
...While Ibsen required five acts to get his point across, Cullberg managed it in a few taut, well-constructed scenes. The curtain rose on a pony-tailed Ellida (Lupe Serrano), her back to the audience, her gaze fixed yearningly on a sea-green curtain. Presently the sailor (Royes Fernandez) appeared and, in a sequence of broad, sweeping movements, lured Ellida into a seductive dance that had the two of them writhing like a couple of fighting fish. The ballet's high point: a dream sequence in which the corps de ballet, got up to look like ocean creatures, came...
...Psychology of Sex is so weighted with abnormal cases that to generalize from them is rather like taking a height norm from a sampling of basketball centers. His self-prized autobiography. My Life, is a talky, pseudo-candid aside. In his literary essays, e.g., on Diderot, Whitman, Ibsen, he was an appreciator but no critic. As a thinker he belongs to the age of the New Woman, with its feminists, pacifists and socialists-pressed flowers in the book of ideas. Ellis' real enemy was Victorian prudery, and the real dragon he killed was Mrs. Grundy. As a freedom fighter...