Word: ibsens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since 1937, except for a year with Eva Le Gallienne and Margaret Webster running the ill-fated American Repertory Theater, Producer Crawford hunts tirelessly for scripts that offer "something different." Now on her schedule: a melodrama, a musical and a new Paul Green adaptation of Ibsen's Peer Gynt, starring John Garfield...
...name of August Strindberg means anything at all to the average theatergoer, it usually means a Swedish playwright who came along after Ibsen and who has since been praised by such dramatists as Shaw, O'Neill, and Thornton Wilder, who regard him as one of their teachers. Indeed, the position of Strindberg seems to have been set at half-way between Ibsen and O'Neill in the field of modern, naturalistic drama; and since the former spells death at the box-office and the latter is a commercial risk, Strindberg, by association, has been deprived of his place...
...monkey cage," that a pastor is "one employed by the wicked to prove to them by his example that virtue doesn't pay." His targets ranged from the ancient Greeks ("Greek tragedy, that unparalleled bore, is confined almost wholly to actresses who have grown too fat for Ibsen") to chiropractors ("heroic pummeling by a retired piano-mover"). Since he was "a skeptic as to all ideas, I have never suffered a pang when the ideas of some other imbecile prevailed...
...less dated play. "Amphitryon 38' was also well done, and like "Lefty" made a profit for the Club, but it was a play unsuited for amateur production, containing too few characters and demanding too much of its inexperienced principles. Anyone that tries to make a profit out of reviving Ibsen these days is very foolish, as was the HDC last year with "An Enemy of the People." But a more foolish fellow still is the one who takes a play which has just been thoroughly trounced by the Broadway critics and tried to resuscitate it in the hope that...
...Doll's House (Fri. 8 p.m., Mutual). Ibsen's drama, with Ingrid Bergman...