Word: sklar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...indictment, returned secretly on Dec. 17, accused Mrs. Eva Berczeller, 43, of Belmont, Mass. of writing and mailing an unsigned, typewritten letter to Julius Sklar, 53, of Claremont, N.H. demanding $50,000 for certain photographs and other material...
...People All Around is written in an old-fashioned protest-play form that seems utterly void of impact in the 1960's. Moments bear a striking resemblance to Waiting for Lefty. The play as a whole comes most definitely from a genre that pervaded the Odets era; Sklar's earlier titles, in fact, include works like Peace on Earth (1933), Stevedore (1934), and Life and Death of an American (1939), the final production of the Federal Theatre Project. Even the title And People All Around is revealing of the author's toward the "serious theatre" he sees this country lacking...
Some elements in Sklar's play transcend the form. His composite town of Leucadia presents a number of convincing Southern characters including a chilling deputy sheriff (perfectly portrayed by Roger W. Loomis) and a hopelessly lost, despicable belle (also well acted, by Susan Bertram...
...COFO people come off as stereotypes of the Northern civil rights worker. (For some reason, incidentally, Sklar uses real organizations like COFO, but substitutes for the KKK or White Citizens' Council a group called the "Redeemers...
...People All Around is the American Playwrights Theatre selection for 1966-67 which means that it will receive dozens of productions at universities across the country before opening in New York. The Tufts Summer Theatre rendering is visually--even atmospherically--a fine one. Sklar's play seems ideally suited to the arena theatre, and director Marston Balch obviously knows how to block a 360-degree production; he has been doing it for years...