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...seeks girl, is rejected. Act Two: Girl seeks boy, is accepted. Act Three: They part. Such is the basis of Love's Comedy by Henrik Ibsen, the 50th anniversary of whose death the Tufts Arena commemorates in this sixth and final production of its current season...
Critics sometimes point to his Tragic Sense of Life as one of the works that inspired the existentialist movement in Paris after World War II. Influenced by the moral austerity of Ibsen and the mystical ruminations of Danish Theologian-Existentialist Sören Kierkegaard, the book argued the toss between faith and reason in a way that could not fail to cause offense to the Spanish hierarchy. In Unamuno's picture of man, man's worst friend was his dogma. He argued: flesh-and-blood man must assert his identity in the face of death. This seemed...
...only recommended course which would not encourage overemphasis or faculty control is that on the development of drama. The subject, like the present course on "Drama Since Ibsen" would be popular, useful, and not in violation of the College tradition of teaching theory and not practice...
...Ibsen's Nora. Taunted by a nasty-minded teen-age neighbor, young Tony takes his horrified peek at the lovers and tells his father all. Jeff does a fadeout, and Oliver almost pies his type in fury ("What kind of a woman are you?"). Lucy, who has been rather foggy about her identity, apparently thinks that she is Ibsen's Nora: "Up to now you've treated me ... as though I'm still twenty, to be cuddled, protected, patronized. Finally, in any important matter, disregarded . . . So-now-I no longer accept...
...plays. Stevens left TIME just before his Bullfight scored an off-Broadway hit that paved the way for a Broadway production of his Champagne Complex. Now Stevens has another play, The Lovers, in rehearsal. Good friends, the two former TIME copy boys have been collaborating on an adaptation of Ibsen's The Master Builder, with Stevens doing the writing and Anderson the translating...