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...every two years. But before that, he marinates impressions, characters, experiences. Iguana emerged from a 1940 trip to Acapulco. By 1946, it was a short story. By 1959, it was a one-act play, produced at a theater festival in Spoleto, Italy. Four separate versions followed, and to compare them is to watch sand turning into Baccarat crystal. Says Williams: "It takes five or six years to use something out of life. It's lurking in the unconscious- it finds its meaning there." Essentially, Williams has been chosen by his subjects...
Music for Sing to Me Through Open Windows was composed by Thomas G. Beveridge '59, who was chosen "class odist." He is also the writer of a one-act opera which was produced here and later shown on WGBH-TV. While at Harvard, Beveridge was pianist for the Glee Club...
...Eliot's, the artist as sage tries to transmute a quantity of experience into a quality of meaning, and answer ultimate questions. At the age of 64, a distinguished U.S. man of letters, Thornton Wilder, has embarked on such a summing-up in a cycle of 14 one-act jMays divided into two groups, "The Seven Ages of Man" and "The Seven Deadly Sins." The off-Broadway debut of three of the playlets, two from the Man series (Infancy, Childhood) and one from the Sins series about lust (Someone from Assisi) is not auspicious...
According to Auden's Law, most of the plays of Thornton Wilder are a poor source for operatic material: deliberately unsensational, they often deal with lives that are determinedly sensible. But last week audiences in Mannheim, Germany, saw Wilder's one-act play, The Long Christmas Dinner, successfully transformed into opera by that master craftsman of contemporary music-Composer Paul Hindemith...
...Broadway 2 by Saroyan mates Talking to You, a brief, touching, one-act parable of Good and Evil, with Across the Board on Tomorrow Morning, a full, hilarious, one-act serving of prime Time of Your Life Saroyantics. As a waiter in a zany café, Milt Kamen is enormous fun to be with...