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...trouble started, Kerr thinks, nearly 80 years ago, when Ibsen, later abetted by Shaw and Chekhov, renounced melodrama and fancy-dress intrigues and ushered in a drama of photographic realism and socially significant content directed at an audience of intellectuals. Like any fresh theatrical cycle, Critic Kerr feels, the one Ibsen introduced gave new vitality to the stage of its time, but unlike the Greek or Elizabethan cycles, it reached its height in its originators, and has long since outlived its original artistic impulse: "The best new brains are feeding on dead tissue...
Olga is only 20 but already an Ibsen-type "New Woman," independent, intelligent, indefatigable. She thinks she can reform Oblomov. He tramps the hills with her, reads poetry to her, and resolves to salvage his wasted life. But Oblomov's only school has been the nursery of self-indulgence, and he cannot bring himself to graduate. He decides, elegantly, that he should have stood in bed. The responsibilities of marriage petrify him. He pleads lack of funds and postpones the date. He develops Victorian scruples about being seen unchaperoned with Olga...
General Electric Theater (Sept. 26, 9-9:30 p.m.), an all-film show last year, starts off live with Nora, an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, starring Gene Tierney, Luther Adler, Patric Knowles...
IMPUNITY JANE, by Rumer Godden (Viking; $2.50), boasts one of the smallest heroines in recent fiction: a four-inch china doll. Impunity, like Ibsen's Nora, rebels against the doll's house, so Author Godden (The River, Black Narcissus) treats her to a high old time as the mascot of a bunch of boys who send her aloft with a toy balloon, spin her on a Catherine wheel and race her across a pond in a toy yacht...
Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 11: Professor William Irvine, from Stanford University, will open "Modern English and American drama." Course members will study drama since Ibsen with particular emphasis on Shaw...