Word: matriarchal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...VALLEY (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Barbara Stanwyck as an Old West matriarch...
...Matriarch McGinley trying to fool? She's more Friedan than Friedan...
...Southern aristocrat. They have (what else?) an idiot child. Hero Reeve Scott is a young Negro just returned from the Army, determined to fight for his rights and not let Henry Warren steal his patch of land away from him. Reeve's mother is (what else?) the heroic matriarch who long ago was Miss Julie-Ann's black mammy. There are elegant dinners and a dynamiting, a courtroom scene and a prefrontal lobotomy. Doom impends...
...Church. Paraguay's Pettirosi Market in the capital of Asuncion is built around a rustic brick chapel, and each morning when the market women troop past, they light candles, kneel down and pray, and place flowers on the altar. "Most men are drunken no-goods," says one market matriarch. "Priests are the only members of their sex I can respect...
This first Broadway production suggests the stature of the play without fully measuring up to it. Anne Bancroft is more often the folksy Bronx matriarch than the flinty earth mother. Straining for Brechtian detachment, Director Jerome Robbins achieves a kind of laconic toughness in which the actors hold back, rather than banish, their tears. This misses Brecht's sense of the dire human predicament too deep for tears. Brecht tended to use sex for comic relief, but Barbara Harris' sly burlesque of a prostitute is the wrong kind of funny for this play. Eric Bentley's translation...