Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Paddy Chayefsky's strengths and weaknesses were displayed very simply in an unscheduled part of Tuesday evening's performance. During an emotional scene, the aging hero of the play is talking sadly of the young girl he loves; he faces away from the stage and, in a disillusioned tone of voice, says, "I thought she liked me--you know what I mean" A woman in the tenth row Tuesday evening replied in perfect rhythm, exactly as loudly as the hero's line, in exactly the same living room tone, in exactly the same New York middle class voice, "Yeah...
Left wing John Mudd, inside Tom Bernheim, center John Hedreen, Shue, and left wing Ken Macintosh form a line, Shue said, "which should show the punch it really has against Williams." Reserve insides Bob Magowan and Al Butzel add solid depth to the line, and should play a good part of the game...
...adapted from a play about the Black-and-Tan Wars, The Rising of the Moon, whose title was given to the trilogy. Lady Gregory's romance has a curiously mixed tone; she alternates bleakness and comedy, much as O'Casey and Behan were to do later...
Ford chose fine material for his atonement: a story by Frank O'Conner, and one-act play by Lady Gregory and Martin McHugh. Then, after giving Hollywood its due by having Tyrone Power read the introductions, he filmed all three on location in Ireland, with actors from Dublin's Abbey Theatre. The result is a light, but eminently convincing movie...
...second part is McHugh's A Minute's Wait. McHugh is less well-known than O'Connor and Lady Gregory, and his play is the slightest of the three. It is a plotless romp around a rural railroad station, and can best be described as fifteen Irish Alec Guinesses, turned loose in front of a camera. Good fun, and a fine contrast to the somber opening of the final piece...