Word: psychodramas
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LADY IN THE DARK (RCA Victor). A reissue of Kurt Weill's songs from the classic musical psychodrama of 1941. The orchestral arrangements sound dated, and even in her prime (eleven years before her death) Gertrude Lawrence had the usual uncertain wobble in her voice, but her Saga of Jenny is nevertheless galvanic, and My Ship still haunting...
Most orthodox psychiatrists are skeptical of psychodrama, but at play's end, the entire audience of 400 seemed to feel better-as if the doctors of the mind had needed to get something off their minds. Next day, they turned to the main business of the A.P.A...
Kill the Father. An offbeat splinter group, the Academy of Psychodrama and Group Therapy, got into the act by staging a curtain raiser for the main meetings in the form of a Kafka-style reconstruction of the personalities and possible motives of Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby. Said Manhattan's Dr. Jacob L. Moreno, who invented psychodrama as a medium for acting out emotional disturbances and thereby treating them: "We are all suffering from a tremendous amount of unresolved guilt and confusion over what happened to President Kennedy. After all, if you can 'kill the father...
...Moreno had asked Dallas Judge Joe B. Brown to let Ruby out to play himself on the psychodrama stage. Predictably, Judge Brown refused. Moreno also had asked former Defense Counsel Melvin Belli to re-enact his own part. Belli accepted, then failed to show. But every role had volunteers, and though members of the audience who sat as a mock jury took no vote, their consensus was plain: if the Dallas jury box had been packed with psychiatrists, Ruby would have been found "insane...
...couple of hundred thousand for a low-budget picture. "We can't afford to make small pictures," said U.A. "We have too much overhead." The dimensions of the Perrys' story were necessarily small, and Hollywood could only have suffocated it anyway as a Blazing Psychodrama in Odd A-O with, say, Yul Brynner and Bette Davis as David and Lisa...