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...Americans," he says, "feel that the critic is a kind of spoilsport. But anyone who writes a play is joining the company of some real giants. I'm not here to say to a playwright, 'How nice, John, you've written a play.' Let his mother say that." Kalem believes that he is here "to give the reader a clear idea of whether this work is worth seeing. Criticism should also aim at placing a play within the history of its genre...
...Object. Similarly, the actor in a film is an object. The camera is impersonal, but not magnanimous: it makes the actor part of the scenery. Onstage, the actor is at the incandescent center of the action. He incarnates the flame of truth and beauty invested in him by the playwright to be passed on to the audience. Thus one can say that Scofield is perfectly all right as Lear, that MacGowran is a good Fool and that Irene Worth is especially good as Goneril, the oldest and ugliest daughter. Then, too, Alan Webb sensitively portrays the Duke of Gloucester, whose...
Twigs is the modest title of a modest play that is modestly amusing. Playwright George Furth, who wrote Company's fine book, is skit-and short-story-minded-not the stuff from which sturdy drama is made. He outlines his Twigs' characters like figures in a child's coloring book, and he proceeds to crayon them onstage without depth...
...financed organization that lobbies for legislation aimed at improving family life. After working out plans with the help of University of Oslo Sociologist Erik Gronseth, the council recruited couples willing to participate in the role-swapping experiment. Among those who volunteered was Anne Ibsen Bulko, 30, a descendant of Playwright Henrik Ibsen, one of the pioneers in Women's Liberation...
...hypocrites and moles. They are also a sad-funny, surreal-absurdist clan, whose like has not been seen on the U.S. stage since Edward Albee's The American Dream. The father is named Ozzie and the mother Harriet, which is a clue to the lowest level of the playwright's satiric intent and achievement...