Word: ribman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...METAPHOR which playwright Ronald Ribman has made the title of his play is not an original one. Long before him, Turgenev had likened the lives of some men to the futile effort, the useless suffering, of a fifth horse hastily harnesses to a coach and four. All its striving, the tether lacerating its back as it strains forward, is pointless...
...tone of Ribman's play original. The combination of resignation and amused tolerance which characterizes landowner Nikolai Alexeevich Chulkaturin is reminiscent--deliberately so--of Camus' heroes. But there is a new dimension to Chulkaturin. He is awkward, comicly so at times. He possesses that amazing ability to stop a conversation dead merely by his appearance...
Hollis Huston, who plays Chulkaturin is a very fortunate man; this stumbling, bumbling butt of every joke, because he is so very human, so unlike the other-worldly Marsault of The Stranger, is one of the most convincing of the characters Ribman has created...
...PLAYHOUSE (NET, 8-10 p.m.). Ronald Ribman's prizewinning drama The Journey of the Fifth Horse stars Dustin Hoffman in his Obie-winning role as a publisher's reader whose life begins to parallel that of a character in a novel he is reading. Repeat...
...PLAYHOUSE (Shown on Fridays). Dustin [The Graduate] Hoffman in Ronald Ribman's The Journey of the Fifth Horse, which won the Obie as the best Off-Broadway play of 1965-66. Repeat...