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Over the past few years Edward Albee, now 34, built up a considerable reputation off-Broadway and abroad on the basis of four one-act plays. The Zoo Story, The Death of Bessie Smith, The Sandbox, and The American Dream did, in truth, indicate a minor if nonetheless indisputable talent...
...interviews, he proved for any doubter that behind the strange and medieval obscurities of his work, there was not a simulated intelligence but a wide and eccentric one, bent on its own course. He drenched himself in the horrors of Inquisitional Spain (one of his best plays is the one-act Escurial). He was a believer in the supernatural; he considered the human senses incomplete, and he was convinced that there are sounds, colors and perfumes that man has never experienced. "To the title of intellectual, which stinks, I prefer that of artisan," he said, "which has a good smell...
Candid Camera (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). The program has commissioned William Saroyan to write a one-act play; then film crews have gone out, using the candid camera technique, to test the situation in real life...
Princess & Politics. Dirksen and Ropp produced two other notable theatricals. One was a one-act allegory called The Slave with Two Faces, in which Ev cavorted on stage wearing a ram's-head mask, black socks, short black tights and nothing else. "I remember thinking," recalls one witness, "that the party lines would be buzzing tomorrow." The other was Percy MacKaye's A Thousand, Years Ago, in which Ev played a pulsating lover panting after the charms of the Princess of Pekin. He won her, of course-and he kept he, for the "princess" was played...
Edna St. Vincent Millay's 1920-vintage, Pirandellesque "Aria da Capo" was presented last Saturday and Sunday at the Loeb Experimental Theater. The play was one-act, lasting a bit over twenty minutes. The audience at the first performance didn't in fact realize the play was over when it came to an end. They waited for more, not because they expected an explicit disentanglement of the sketch's nebulous events--probably they had already become familiar with the promising ambiguities of Pinter, Ionesco, Adamov, Genet--but because the classics of the theatre of the abstract have been long-winded...