Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Transfer of Treason. For mature Russians the message delivered in this oblique way could not but be momentous: according to the Stalin version of history, Marshal Tukhachevsky had headed a plot, inspired by the exiled Trotsky, to take...
...surface to be sure, it appears quite simple--a man and two women meet in one room and spend about an hour talking to each other. But the room is in hell, and in their conversation each of them slowly bares his soul. The play has no further plot than this process of self-discovery, and it might be boring if, in revealing the evil of his characters, Sartre did not manage to make statements on a great number of subjects ranging from love to death to the quality of human courage. As it stands, however, the play is frequently...
Since the actors have no plot to hide behind, they must sustain tension throughout the drama by unfolding their characters quickly enough to keep the play interesting, but also slowly enough to have something left for the end. Two of the three principals have solved their problem well. Robert Jordan gives a very impressive performance as a pacifist newspaperman with an exterior compounded of confidence and arrogance. Yet underneath his surface the man is a coward, and his fear eventually leads him to hell. One of the two women, however, clearly belongs there from the very beginning. As portrayed...
...crime upon which the plot of Oedipus rests is so foul and revolting that the base suggestion of it is not to be found in even the worst modern literature.... She (Harvard) it is who planned to gather from hundreds of homes all that is pure and maidenly and guileless, shut it up within her walls and subject it to this hard ordeal...
...plot is carried well by the actors. Daniel Gelin gives a believable portrayal of the confused intellectual, while Pierre Bresseur, as Hoederer, is powerful and sensitive at the same time. Both Claude Nollier, as the faithful party workers, and Monique Artur, as Gelin's less faithful wife, are excellent...