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...interested in your review of MacBird [March 3]. I was especially interested in the photograph of the "L.BJ. cartoon" being used as a backdrop for the play...
Several months ago the director of MacBird approached my gallery with the idea of using a 1961 painting of mine called Clown in Armor as a backdrop for his production of MacBird. I did not wish to be associated with this play and refused him my permission...
Some of my friends, having seen the photograph in TIME, have expressed surprise that I would lend my work to such a play. I would like to make it clear that I had nothing to do with this production of MacBird...
...consistent tone can be imparted to a play that juxtaposes the somber drum roll of the Kennedy funeral cortege with such inane Shakespearean mutations as "Oh whine and pout/ That ever I was born to bury doubt." But MacBird's basic flaw is that Playwright Garson is a frivolous, scattershot satirist who has no moral vision of her own to counterpose whatever might be regarded as evil in her characters. She has written an apolitical play in which all choices seem silly. The Ken O'Duncs are presented as chilly, ruthless opportunists; MacBird is a mixture of corn...
...question the logic of that war but to imply that Johnson, like Macbeth, has "supped full with horrors" and is an unfeeling, bloody-minded monster. Unwilling to concede the humanity of others, she reduces her characters to caricatures. They eventually take their revenge by draining MacBird of most of its fun and all of its life...