Word: loden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lincoln Center Theatre is at present not much better off than Broadway. It began its first season on the wrong foot, when its producers built Arthur Miller's After the Fall into a Broadway-type hit, and the play's female lead, Barbara Loden, into a Broadway star. Of the theatre's other productions, O'Neill's Marco Millions and S.N. Behrman's But for Whom Charlie were coolly received, and The Changeling was disastrous. Because of The Changeling, the Center's Board of Directors decided to fire Robert Whitehead, the theatre's artistic director. With him went Elia Kazan...
This season the rep company began with its worst fiasco yet, a revival of The Changeling that revealed just how inept the company, as presently assembled, is. For example, Actress Barbara Loden, who seemed to be a remarkable find as Marilyn Monroe in After The Fall, turned out to be embarrassingly like what one would expect Marilyn to have been if she had ever played Dostoevsky, as she was forever hoping to. And with Incident at Vichy-Arthur Miller's new hit-things came full circle. Thus, approximately one year after its opening, Lincoln Center has served as little...
...Changeling by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley. The Lincoln Center Repertory Theater is working its way from mediocrity to absurdity. This season's starter is an Elizabethan plotboiler full of sex, gore and lunacy. As Beatrice, a noblewoman of Spain, Barbara Loden is not on speaking terms with her lines, and the rest of the cast is unspeakable, except for Barry Primus, who plays Beatrice's low-born hatchetman and seducer. The message of the evening seems to be that a girl may love the man she loathes. It does not hold for a playgoer...
...shape another human being. He pities her vulnerability, admires her gift for living in the present without justifying her actions or impulses. To her he is a wondrous king-of books. Each weds his own deepest inadequacy, his for love, hers for learning. In an exquisitely modulated performance, Barbara Loden never mimics Marilyn Monroe so far as to mock her, and when the self-destructive ordeal of drink and barbiturates begins, she becomes as pitiably touching as the drowning Ophelia...
Without trying to emulate the breathy voice of La Monroe, Barbara Loden gives an exhibition of shattering virtuosity as the ill-fated Maggie. Salome Jens brings vibrant strength and an authentic accent to the role of Holga, and Mariclare is deeply affecting as Louise. Zohra Lampert is delightful as the starry-eyed young dancer Felice, whose infatuation with Quentin leads her to have her nose bobbed...