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Thus there is Miss Madrigal, the newly-hired "companion" in the house on a chalk cliff, who acts very mysterious and displays a frighteningly detailed knowledge of gardening. Her quirks are perfectly accounted for in the last act, when her background is exposed and the play's pseudoallegorical meaning underlined...

Author: By Stephen R. Barnett, | Title: The Chalk Garden | 7/26/1956 | See Source »

The play seems somewhat self-conscious about its own hidden meanings and symbols. In the last act, by having Miss Madrigal tell the grandmother: "You have not a green thumb with a plant or a child," the playwright tries rather painfully to impart some undue significance to all the gardening...

Author: By Stephen R. Barnett, | Title: The Chalk Garden | 7/26/1956 | See Source »

The Gishes both gave creditable performances--Lillian as Miss Madrigal and Dorothy as Mrs. St. Maugham--although they seemed somehow reluctant to lose themselves in their parts and to forget that after all, they are the Gishes. Lillian especially kept the passions within her a little too well hidden. Charron...

Author: By Stephen R. Barnett, | Title: The Chalk Garden | 7/26/1956 | See Source »

The Littlest Revue wound up the off-Broadway Phoenix Theatre's season with festive intentions but pretty limp results. With but eight people in the cast, it is an intimate revue with a vengeance; and with its faces so quickly familiar and its fandangos so modestly scaled, it stands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Revue in Manhattan, Jun. 4, 1956 | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

Separately, the two Glee Clubs were much better. The Smith chorus sang an expert performance of Monteverdi's Scherzi Musicale for three-voice chorus, two instruments and continue. The unusual stylistic combination of a trio sonata and a madrigal was handled by Monteverdi with great care, and the two pieces...

Author: By Stephen Addiss, | Title: Smith Comes to Sanders | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

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