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ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD puts a Shakespearean duo in a Pirandellian situation, then confers on them Beckettian angst mixed with Beyond the Fringe humor. British Playwright Tom Stoppard's play is well served by the acting of Brian Murray and John Wood and the direction of Derek Goldby...
...Times stated--but not for their reason. To be sure, Albee did introduce here a certain dramatic device. Critical ethics prevent me from joining Kerr and Taubman in revealing it specifically. I shall only say that the neo-naturalistic style of the first two acts turns somewhat Pirandellian in the third, which treats the theme so eloquently examined in O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh...
...most flares and flashes is a scathing, mocking Negro anger toward the whites. Where in Genet's The Balcony men act out their dreams, in The Blacks they act out their nightmares as well. Often unbridled, sacrilegious, obscene, The Blacks is echoing too at times, with travestied ceremonies, Pirandellian illusion and reality, a sense of secular Black Masses and King Lear mock trials. A savage Negro assault that is also a Genet indictment, in places The Blacks indicts the savagery as well...
...Bologna. And when she laughs, she seems to laugh out of every pore at once, as if it were just a more enjoyable way of sweating. In fact, Magnani is almost too strong for Renoir to hold. At every move she takes the stage from his main theme, a Pirandellian play on appearance and reality, theater and life; and it is just as well for the picture that she does...
...Author, long a professor of philosophy in a Roman high school, turned to drama late in life after writing many novels and short stories. "Pirandellian" is now Italy's equivalent for "Shavian." He came to wide fame only in 1921, with his play Six Characters in Search of an Author. Critics who deny that Professor Pirandello is a philosopher at least agree that his genius for sardonic humor is considerable. If he only toys with mankind's moral and spiritual absurdities, and makes the stage a debating platform for fruitless metaphysics, he at least does it with terse...