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SPOFFORD. Playwright-Director Herman Shumlin has performed an autopsy on Peter DeVries' novel Reuben, Reuben. Melvyn Douglas gives a cunningly ingratiating performance as a retired Connecticut Yankee chicken farmer who finds New York commuters the bane and boon of his existence. The melancholy fact remains that like an obituary an adaptation of a novel to the stage says good things of the dead without restoring them to life...
PANTAGLEIZE. The APA Repertory Company mounts a stylistically rich production of the Belgian playwright Michel de Ghelderode's grotesque historical farce. From the cornucopia of his imagination comes spilling forth Pantagleize (Ellis Rabb), a Chaplinesque figure who, equipped with only an umbrella, a silly expression and an innocent greeting, manages to start a revolution...
...TRIALS OF BROTHER JERO and THE STRONG BREED. In this double bill introducing his work to the U.S., Nigerian Playwright Wole Soyinka proves himself to be both a satirist and a mythopoet, blending modern mockery and irony with a residual reverence for the African past, bringing his heroes out of tribal folklore to convincing stage life...
...Peter Wyn-garde were critically acclaimed for the sure-footed skill they displayed in handling the rapid-fire crisscross of dialogue. There are no present plans for an American production, but it would be peculiarly ironic if Broadway were to receive the work of the finest living U.S. playwright as still another British import...
Although their ranks are thinning out, there are those who yearn for the fat novel overflowing with characters, spanning decades instead of days or hours. Right now, the best bargain of this sort is A Horseman Riding By, by the British playwright and novelist R. F. Delderfield. It is long enough (half a million words) to last a careful reader from now till the Fourth of July, and it is so transparently simple that neither its ideas nor ambiguities will startle anyone. Since it runs a course from the Boer War to Dunkirk and sticks to a small rural valley...