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...friends when he became Hitler's chief of state theaters, yet proved so irreplaceable that after the war he was chosen to direct the state theaters of Düsseldorf (1947-54) and Hamburg (1955-63), making them the top German stages with a repertory of classics (Schiller, Ibsen) and moderns (Brecht, Eliot); of an accidental overdose of barbiturates; on a visit to Manila...
HEDDA GABLER (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Ibsen's play, with Ingrid Bergman, Sir Michael Redgrave, Sir Ralph Richardson and Trevor Howard...
...pieces attempt to represent what six authors--Shakespeare, Chekhov, Ibsen, Wilde, Odets and Williams--might have done with commonplace dramatic themes: love and letters, cuckolds and cash-on-the-line weddings. The "typical Shakesperian clown engages in a "typical" mixup of missives. The deranged Blanche du Bois figure in the Williams parody imagines a Spanish pen pal to take her from the beer-and-beatings world of her Stanley Kowalski type mate...
What this production lacks in authorial wit, it compensates for by the concerted effort of cast and director. Except for a noticeable lack of energy in the Wilde offering and the shoddiness of all concerned in the Ibsen episode, the director, Clayton Koelb, manages to impose appropriate styles upon the four other parodies...
...imagery: "I see a cloud shaped just like a samovar." Her Odets mama ("A dry-goods store you don't sneeze at, papa") carries on the grand tradition of Molly Picon and Gertrude Berg. However, her miming as the maid in Drainpipes owes more to French farce than to Ibsen...