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These days, it has become fashionable among many cynics to disparage the idea of progress as romantic and naive, a comforting illusion. The recent history of women argues otherwise, and the improvement can practically be graphed. In 1937, only a third of Americans said they would be willing to consider...
A novelist can describe time's flow past a few more bends in the river, nothing more. And nothing less: seen well, the currents and eddies that quicken, disappear and roil to the surface again during two generations of an ordinary family's journey are astonishing and mysterious...
The words were polite but assertive: "Democracy cannot use the arms of tyranny. Reason and understanding are superior to the illusion of the effectiveness of force." That advice from the rostrum in the House of Representatives, directed at the Reagan Administration's policies in Central America, came not from...
In 1967, literary critic George Neveaux wrote, "The entire theatre of an era came out of the womb of that play, Six Characters." Pirandello's revolution in form and content profoundly influenced the works of Sartre, Anouilh, Genet, Camus, Ionesco, Beckett, and many other playwrights. Pirandello's dramaturgy contributed significantly...
Perhaps the greatest achievement of the A.R.T.'s adaptation is that it preserves the sense of the play as an illusion. Six Characters ends with a series of strange happenings and, though the audience knows they are only technical tricks. It leaves a feeling that something magical has occurred.