Word: ibsens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shows had an impressive line-up of scripters: Euripides, Ibsen, Shaw, Christopher Marlowe, Rostand. They ran from a carefree one hour, one minute (Shaw's Man of Destiny") to an odd one hour, 27 minutes (Euripides' Trojan Women). Producers were from the top BBCrust. The casts were sparked with big British theatrical names...
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...
...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...