Word: sopranos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conception of director David Wheeler, The Bald Soprano,by Eugene Ionesco, is neither farcical nor dead serious. Rather, like the hysteria of a madman, it is full of terribly important messages which are difficult to interpret...
...scene of the hysteria in Wheeler's Soprano is the living room of the Smith's bourgeois home in the suburbs (Ionesco's Soprano originally exploded in a British parlor). On the left hand side of Don Berry's spare and perfectly appropriate set, Mr. Smith (Jerry Gershman) digests the evening newspaper, while on the right Mrs. Smith (Jo Lane) thinks over the dinner they may or may not have eaten--it never becomes clear which...
Price incidentally plays the lead in the other piece on the same Theatre Company program, The Dock Brief, by John Mortimer. In comparison with the bite of The Bald Soprano, the whimsy of The Dock Brief is so vapid that it is tolerable only because it begins the evening. Little is news in The Dock Brief except perhaps the performances of the actors, Price and Edward Finnegan, which create imaginary or past worlds off the stage far more interesting than...
...evening of contemporary theatre in the little Hotel Bostonian Playhouse can be doubly sour if the acid of The Bald Soprano dissolves the sugar of The Dock Brief. Or it can be doubly rewarding. But there is no easy metaphor to explain how, so you will have to see it yourself...
Died. Rosa Raisa, 70, Russian-born U.S. soprano who created the role of Turandot when Puccini's opera premiered at La Scala, reigned as a top American diva throughout the 1920s, when, backed by Utility King Samuel Insull and directed by Mary Garden, the Chicago Opera enjoyed international esteem; after a long illness; in Los Angeles...