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Next to modern escapist drama, voters signified a desire for modern tragedy, as Eugene O'Nell placed third in the playwright preferences of the interviewees. Behind O'Nell followed Noel C. Coward, Henrick Ibsen, Oscar Wilde, Maxwell Anderson, Clifford Odets, Anton Chekov, and Thornton Wilder. stated, "There was an almost intense monotony of response, which may perhaps be indicative of the stereotyped taste pattern of American audiences in general, and more particularly a definite escapist sentiment...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 10 p.m., ABC). Ibsen's A Doll's House, with Dorothy McGuire, Basil Rathbone...
...translation of the Iliad by Rieu is also coming; so are Sophocles, Xenophon, Theocritus and Tacitus. Penguin has entrusted mystery writer Dorothy Sayers with The Divine Comedy. Turgenev, Gorki and Ibsen will also get badly needed fresh coats of English...
John Gabriel Borkman (by Henrik Ibsen; produced by the American Repertory Theater) is the second-to-last of Ibsen's plays and second-best Ibsen. Yet much of it is powerful in a somewhat old-fashioned way, and John Gabriel Borkman himself, even though not encountered till he is more of a ruin than a man, is a commanding figure...
...study of blasted lives, and a harsh but not uncompassionate indictment of the ambition that blasted them, John Gabriel Borkman seethes with the fiercely neurotic emotions of deeply frustrated people. Only in his later scenes does Playwright Ibsen lose his grip; the too-symbolic ending points a moral better than it adorns a tale...