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...prospectus says that the Summer Players "feel that with Aristophanes, to be irreverent is to be faithful." This production is not faithful to Aristophanes' irreverence. For Aristophanes, while he was an expert practitioner of the calculated gross-out, also dared to scream insults in the face of public opinion. And that, as he says himself in this play, is what placed him head and shoulders over his fellow comedy-writers...

Author: By Timothy Crouse, | Title: Peace | 7/7/1967 | See Source »

...amount of warning, however shrill, ever quite prepares a people for the air-raid siren's scream. The first wail is always difficult to believe. In Cairo, last week, it scarcely disturbed the morning bustle of the bazaar, or the gossip of black-clad women clucking along the banks of the muddy Nile. No matter that only the night before, President Gamal Abdel Nasser had welcomed Iraq to the Egypto-Jordanian alliance against Israel, and proclaimed: "We are so eager for battle in order to force the enemy to awake from his dreams and meet Arab reality face to face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: The Quickest War | 6/16/1967 | See Source »

...seminude courtesan tries to seduce a hunchback as his image mocks him from three mirrors. Fashionable men and women strip to nearly topless leotards and pantomime a sordid orgy. A bearded astrologer chants about immortality while peacocks scream. In a gloomy garden, a man embraces a sculptured minotaur, seeing in it the face of his brother. Statues spring to life in an eerie dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Works: In a Gloomy Garden | 5/26/1967 | See Source »

...HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* A private eye (Ricardo Montalban) focuses on a privae secre- tary (Joanne Dru) during the search for murder cles in "To Sleep. Perchance to Scream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 12, 1967 | 5/12/1967 | See Source »

...Jamaican named Auro, who has "the palest Negro skin" she has ever seen. When she arrives back home after dark, the poor dopey male, Tom, is waiting at the gate to punish his faithless Patsy. "He rose as she went through the gate and acted so deftly that the scream she let out got lost in her throat as a wail. She died with her back to him and as she fell, he helped her down." Then he saw that it was poor Willa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Girl with Green Ink | 5/12/1967 | See Source »

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