Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Director-Co-Author Logan was born 39 years ago "on the paved side of Texarkana." At eight, he saw his first theatrical production-a morality play "full of handmaidens personifying things like Beauty, Youth and Modesty. I think what really got me was seeing Flattery enter through a mirror...
After a spell at Culver Military Academy, he went to Princeton, "so I could be in the Triangle Club." During his first summer vacation from Princeton, he joined a summer stock company that included Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart and Mildred Natwick, and he directed one play. In his senior year, he won a scholarship to the Moscow Art Theater, where he sat for eight months at the feet of the great Stanislavsky...
...Richard Aldrich & Richard Myers, in association with Brian Doherty) followed John Bull's Other Island as the Dublin Gate Theater's second Broadway offering. A highly expressionistic fantasy first produced in 1929, it tells of an actor (Micheál MacLiammoir) who is accidentally knocked unconscious while playing Irish Rebel Robert Emmet (1778-1803) in a costume play. The rest of The Old Lady consists of the actor's delirious visions: he is still Emmet, but an Emmet wandering through the streets and pubs and literary gatherings of a decadent modern Dublin...
...living too much in the past-an Ireland in which everyone is so busy acting a part that no one acts. All swift scenes and no sustained story, it flares up brightly one moment, falls flat the next, and its expressionism seems dated as often as daring. But the play has much Celtic freshness of language, and the smoothness born of playing it many times...
...after twelve years the bottom has dropped out of it too. Or at any rate out of last week's half-Ways and Means, Family Album, Red Peppers (this week: Hands Across the Sea, Fumed Oak, Shadow Play). Ways and Means, telling about a stony-broke but determinedly gay couple visiting in a stylish Riviera villa, and Family Album, in which a Victorian family drink themselves out of mourning Papa's death into welcoming it, had always seemed pretty trivial. But last week they also seemed pretty trashy, and not much fun. Only Red Peppers, an onstage-backstage...