Word: playscript
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this evaluation of the finest moments of this production seems essentially noncommittal, it is because the production offers no further evidence upon which to base a judgement. Moss and Hamlin move to a confrontation with the text, a testing of the values of the playscript in terms of the demands of a real stage and a live audience, but sadly, the confrontation never takes place. The quality of the play remains an open question, not to be resolved on the Loeb stage. The production is finally a mixed bag, triumphant in many of its details, but so deeply divided against...
...father is dangling him as pervert bait to land a merger that may save his Depression-gored financial empire. While waiting for this rococo rotter to tot up his accounts with a final bullet, idle-minded theater partygoers may wonder, in days to come, whether this playscript was found in Terence Rattigan's typewriter or his wastebasket...
Journey was produced on Broadway in 1956, three years after the playwright's death. Translated to the screen by Director Sidney Lumet, who has added nothing to O'Neill's playscript and taken very little away, Journey provides a raw red slice of family life, liberally garnished with rotgut, morphine, vitriol and sour grapes, that takes more than three hours (allowing intermission) to digest. But it feeds the inner...