Word: lysistrata
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...compare him to Aristophanes. Author Linklater's picaresque, satirical novels (Juan in America, Magnus Merriman et al.) were full of bawdy humor and a blithe unconcern for English notions of propriety. But last week, when he published a new-fashioned novelist's version of Aristophanes' Lysistrata, critics concluded that the Scot was no match for the Greek on his own ground...
...started. Twenty years later, in 411 B.C., he was even sicker. Athens' allies were slipping away; the Syracuse expedition had ended in crushing disaster. But whenever one side suggested peace, the other side was doing too well with the war to call it off. Then Aristophanes wrote Lysistrata. What if all the women of Athens united, seized the Acropolis, told the men they would live resolutely continent till the war ended? Aristophanes suggested that the war would end at once...
...Novelist Werfel, who was completing his best-selling Forty Days of Musa Dagh, to do the book. He called in Composer Weill, who had finished his music for Dreigroschenoper but had not yet dreamed of Johnny Johnson, to score the spectacle. Designer Norman Bel Geddes, long finished with Lysistrata but not yet started on Dead End, was hired to set the spectacle. Of all the episodes in The Eternal Road's tortuous history, those concerning its scenery are the most prodigious and painful. Director Reinhardt and Producer Weisgal originally conceived their show as occupying its own specially constructed tabernacle...
...scenery for Lysistrata and King Lear amply testify, Norman Bel Geddes is no stranger in the realm of artistic imagination. In Dead End, "an experiment in technique, a step toward increased realism in writing and production." Designer Geddes has given the U. S. Theatre new dimensions in the realm of naturalism. Displayed on the stage where David Belasco used to draw plaudits for showing real roses in real vases is apparently the east end of Manhattan's 53rd Street. To the left stands the rear entrance of a swank apartment not unlike River House. In the centre squats...
...best known U. S. designers was represented but, more often than not, settings for their best known plays were lacking. People looked in vain for Robert Edmond Jones's The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife, The Jest, Mourning Becomes Electra; for Bel Geddes' Miracle or Lysistrata; for Jo Mielziner's Street Scene...