Word: medea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once, even the critics agreed. Last week 17 out of 21 Broadway reviewers voted Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire the best new play of the season. Mister Roberts got two votes, Command Decision and Medea one each. The critics then picked Terence Rattigan's The Winslow Boy as the best foreign play to reach Broadway this season. Neither playwright was on hand to take a bow: Rattigan was home in England; Williams, whose Glass Menagerie had won the prize in 1944-45, was vacationing in Italy...
Actress Judith Anderson and the producers of the Broadway hit, Medea, resigned from each other, refused to tell anybody what it was all about. Business was fine; breast-beating Star Anderson had been a critical and popular sensation. But now everything was off after May, including next season's road tour. "They thought they knew everything and I knew nothing," was all the star would...
...Medea. Judith Anderson offering one of the great performances of the age in Robinson Jeffers' adaptation of one of the great dramas of the ages (TIME...
...Medea. 5. Crime and Punishment...
Those who have seen Benjamin Britten find it hard to believe that he could conceive so violent a play as Peter Grimes: it is almost like Baby Snooks reading lines from Medea. He is the kind of person no one remembers meeting at a party. Usually to be seen in a loose tweed coat, slacks and sweater, his hands habitually stuffed into his pockets, he has a rather tight, lean, nosy face which wrinkles easily into a vinegarish smile under a widow's peak of crinkly hair. He has a very English embarrassment about expressing emotion about anything...