Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Overwhelming Role. With that, he climbed into a Cadillac to receive the greatest reception in Manila's history. An estimated 2,000.000 wildly cheering Filipinos lined the ten-mile route from the airport to Manila's Malacanan Palace, where MacArthur and his wife Jean were to stay. Even MacArthur, never one to view his own role in history lightly, seemed impressed. "Overwhelming," he gasped. Bands greeted him with Old Soldiers Never Die, the venerable barracks tune he applied to himself when Truman recalled him from Korea in 1951 for defiantly insisting that the war should be carried...
...after using up so much creative energy on his titles, had something left over for the plays themselves. Oh Dad, Poor Dad, described in undergraduate fashion by the playwright himself as "a pseudoclassical tragifarce in a bastard French tradition." shows influences in every scene-from strong, cynical gusts of Jean Anouilh, Marcel Ayme and Jean Giraudoux down to weak, cynical undertones of Elizabeth Taylor: "He's dead. Listen to me. I'm alive." It is a spoof of everything from waltzing toreadors to Tennessee Williams; and like the characters of Williams' The Rose Tattoo, Kopit...
...Tragedy," says the Chorus of Jean Anouilh's Antigone, "is clean"--but the play itself belies this. For Anouilh, writing in 1944, the filth of politics and administration seemed more real than the antiseptic heroics of Sophoclean tragedy. Like the Frenchmen of the day his Thebans are all preoccupied with authority and sordid disorder, a preoccupation intensified in the English language version by Lewis Galantiere's consistent use of rough American slang...
...that saga goes back to 1793, when a debonair Frenchman named Jean Pierre Blanchard ascended from the yard of Philadelphia's Walnut Street prison in a balloon, accompanied by a small, whimpering dog. While President George Washington and hundreds of Philadelphians craned their necks in amazement, Blanchard panicked a squadron of pigeons and drifted nonchalantly out of sight. After 46 minutes in the air, he plopped down in a woodland 15 miles away and placated the scared natives with wine...
...Jean Genet's The Blacks, a savage allegory of racial antagonisms that range over the whole color spectrum, is the best bargain on the subway circuit. Genet's jaundiced view of life is also represented in The Balcony, in which the world is seen as the inside of a brothel. Rising Playwright Edward Albee has not yet gone the distance, but has built a considerable reputation on such hard-hitting one-acters as The American Dream and The Death of Bessie Smith, now playing on a dual bill. Also recommended: Anne Meacham as a superb Hedda Gabler...