Word: lys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...essence in the title and was never professionally produced. But now Kopit has prepared a new script for production next month off-Broadway, and Dad-wise he is only half a dozen picas off the peak. The new play, scheduled to go into Greenwich Village's Theatre de Lys, is called Asylum or What the Gentlemen Are Up To Not to Mention the Ladies...
...interest in two modern greats, Eugene O'Neill and Bertolt Brecht. When off-Broadway's greatly gifted Jose Quintero directed The Iceman Cometh, in May 1956, O'Neill's reputation was dormant. The remarkable six-year run of The Threepenny Opera at the Theater de Lys helped to detonate a Brecht boomlet that is finally exploding on Broadway with the March arrival of Brecht's best play, Mother Courage...
...none of this is to suggest that the Charles' production is less substantial than, say, the Theatre de Lys production in New York. Enervated Brecht is all the Brecht American audiences seem to care for, and it is hard to blame the Charles for that...
...York: Baroque, Chambord, Pavilion, "21"; Dallas: La Vieille Varsovie; Los Angeles: Perino's; San Francisco: Fleur de Lys; Chicago: Café Bonaparte, Maison Lafite, Red Carpet; New Orleans: Les Patisseries aux Quatre Saisons...
...curtain went up last week at off-Broadway's Theater de Lys, and there on the stage?in a play called The Shepherd's Chameleon, by French Playwright Eugene Ionesco?was an actor playing a character called Ionesco, a playwright at work on a play called The Shepherd's Chameleon. Three more characters, each called Bartholomeus, turned up and began to unravel funny skeins of academic pedantry in argument with the playwright...