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...University of Vermont professor of psychiatry, Huessy was writing a paper on Communist Playwright...
...this house would be somewhat misleading, for the drama is saturated with fascinating Oedipal byplay and lit throughout with sudden match flares of humor. Saved would not be a matter of theatrical moment except that Edward Bond possesses a genuine dramatic imagination and the makings of a formidable playwright. His best dialogue is equal to Pinter's, and he can match Beckett when it comes to peering into the abyss of existence. While not as fine a playwright as either, he has something that the two greater dramatists lack: a keen sense of man as a social being...
Died. Giovacchino Forzano, 86, Italian playwright and librettist noted for his work with Puccini; in Rome. Forzano won plaudits for his librettos for Puccini's one-act Gianni Schicchi and Suor Angelica, and contributed librettos for such other composers as Mascagni, Leoncavallo and Lehar. Italians also remember him as the dramatist who nursed Mussolini's passion to write, thrice co-authoring plays with H Duce...
Blanket Indictments. The play, like that vision, finally falls apart. The point of collapse comes when Mrs. Hasseltine withdraws her charges against Millington and turning on the assembled officers, says, "You are scum." Playwright England hasn't prepared the audience for anything like that, either as a Brechtian blast at the military or in terms of the actual behavior of the officers involved. It refutes common sense to make blanket indictments of any group of men, whether they be army officers, policemen or stockbrokers. The person most qualified to know this is Mrs. Hasseltine herself, who has traded...
...girl, Sinaida (Dominique Sanda), is an impoverished princess with a fatal blessing; unrelieved sensuality. She attracts not only the youth Alexander (John Moulder Brown) but a whole galaxy of worshipers, including Alexander's repressed father (Maximilian Schell) and Poet-Pretender Maidanov, played with self-mocking gusto by Playwright John Osborne...