Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Archbishop declared that the United Nations can play a helpful role in the current struggle by recommending an immediate end to British rule, and self government during an interim period if the Cypriots are still denied immediate self-determination...
...Meyer, associate director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, forecast the decline of the Cypriote economy during the next five to seven years and called for a NATO trusteeship until Cyprus could be made solvent. Carlyle Morgan of the Christian Science Monitor also stressed the role NATO might play in the period before Cyprus could be allowed self-determination...
Based on a novel by Ross Lockridge, Jr., Millard Kaufman's screen play relates the tribulations of a young Indiana school teacher. In the years just preceding the Civil War he deserts his college sweetheart to marry a designing Southern heiress. After war breaks out, she goes insane, crosses the lines with their young son, and ends up in a madhouse. Whereupon our hero hits upon the questionable scheme of enlisting in the Union Army so he can go south to find her. Of course he does, and after some further unlikely accidents it all ends happily enough...
...first play, Escurial, by the modern French playwright Michel de Ghelderode, is by far the better performed of the double bill, the other half of which is a Moliere farce, Les Precieuses Ridicules. Ghelderode's play is bitter, ambiguous at times to the point of obscurity, but a fearsome dramatic tension is maintained for the very reason that one is unsure of the details of the situation. It involves a pseudo-farcical biplay between a king waiting for the dying of his wife and his all-too-knowing clown, leading to a frightening and tragic revelation...
Director John Van Italie also deserves credit for handling his actors so that the play never descends to pathos and maintains an atmosphere, oscillating between lunacy and the most horrible of realities, that seems so necessary to the play. This is experimental theater at its best...