Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Evident throughout the show is the silent hand of director Dean Stolber. Stolber's staging, especially in the telephone scene, shows remarkable comic sense. And the choreography, handled by both Stolber and Miss Ware, is positively inspired. The singing may be ragged on occasion, and the ham a little overdone, but Bye Bye Birdie fairly rings with gusto and life...
...moral analogies prevail today. The choice of man to sneak out or to remain silent is not only for history. One could easily change the characters of Hochhuth's play and retain only the moral charge. We would then have a play about religious leaders in America confronted with the choice of speaking out or remaining silent on any aspect of man's inherent rights...
...Final Push. With huge holes now gaping in the fences, and the defenders scattering inside the grounds, the way was clear for the final push. Then suddenly, at 6:15 a.m., everything fell silent again. A rebel general, who throughout the battle had been in constant touch with Diem and Nhu by telephone, had called for a five-minute grace period to allow the besieged President and his party to emerge...
...Christian West, and hoped to negotiate a cease-fire between Germany and the Western Allies. Hochhuth believes that the Pope, as the Supreme Pontiff of the world's most powerful Christian church, was the only man whose formal protest might have deterred Hitler. But the Pope was silent, and in a 45-page historical appendix to the text of his play, Hochhuth charges: "Never perhaps in the whole of history have so many paid with their lives for the passive attitude of one politician...
...little prologue, shown as a silent film with title frames inserted and a hurdy-gurdy hammering in the background, tiny Tom is found luxuriously "abandoned" in Squire Allworthy's bed and is instantly adopted by the dear old fellow (George Devine). In the next scene Tom (Albert Finney) is already pushing 20-not to mention the voluptuous daughter (Diane Cilento) of his uncle's gamekeeper. Five minutes after that the audience knows all about the beauteous Sophie Western (Susannah York), Tom's light-o'-love: about Squire Western, her apoplectic pa; and about that slimy fellow...