Word: saroyans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...called "well-made" play with the so-called "mood" play. Champion of the former group is Lillian Hellman, whose melodramatic hits, including "Watch on the Rhine" which opened here last night, are taut, compact plays, carefully plotted and manipulated. Prime progenitor of the "mood" plays is, of course, William Saroyan...
...Saroyan is not at all orthodox about his procedure in playwriting. His flamboyant ego, his unreserved sentimentality and love for the people, have baffled the critics, who, at first, accused him of being a hoax. His ingenuous personality and his unashamed bravado puzzled the more mature and sophisticated onlookers. But now he is recognized as the leader of a one-man cult. He wants mood most of all in drama; plot, situation and character are all incidental to the creation of the proper feeling. A play, for him, must excite as music does, in a sweeping, comprehensive whole...
...Play by Saroyan (Thurs. 10:20 p.m. CBS) entitled There's Something I Got to Tell You, i.e., about Christmas...
Please hand one large and beautiful bouquet to the guy responsible for the piece on Saroyan's Fables in the Books section of the Nov. 17 issue. It's a honey, a wow and the perfect commentary on the Saroyantics...
...National Theater Conference bestows acting rights to the play on community and college theaters for what they can afford to pay. Last week Broadway critics journeyed to Princeton, N. J. to see the play performed by the Theatre Intime, an undergraduate amateur group. For further news of William Saroyan...