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...Julie Harris as Nora in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House (NBC). In the semi-modern classic that for years was regarded as a ringing plea for woman's emancipation, she was superb as the child-wife who is treated as a mindless, soulless plaything by a priggish husband (Christopher Plummer). But while Actress Harris-kittenish, hectically gay and finally rebellious-could break out of Nora's plush Victorian prison, she could not wholly shake off the stilted language and obtrusive 19th century stagecraft which Adaptor James Costigan took over from Ibsen...
Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.). Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, starring Julie Harris, Christopher Plummer, Jason Robards Jr. TV adaptation by James (Little Moon of Alban) Costigan. Color...
...when Ghosts was first produced, Clement Scott, a noted London critic, called Henrik Ibsen's play "an open drain, a loathsome sore unbandaged, a dirty act done publically..." But as performed by the Lowell House Drama Group, Ghosts is not nearly so shocking as it is dull, and eventually depressing. For when Ibsen's theme emerges through the verbiage and some discouragingly flabby acting, it retains a profound meaning...
...Strindberg is the forebear of O'Neill, Ibsen is the inspiration of Arthur Miller. Convinced that "a new production of the play on the tradition basis would truly bury Ibsen for good" Miller has made an adaptation of Enemy of the People that strips away much of the pedanty and Victorianism of the play. Yet the injection of the Miller touch and the attempt to up-date the speech and action undercuts some of the play's force and argumentative strength...
...Enemy of the People, Ibsen wrote a masterpiece of crowd study which Miller has reworked with his own intimate knowledge of structure and stagecraft. The "terrible wrath of Henrik Ibsen" makes powerful theatre fare...