Word: stage
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...came in for discussion in Williams' address. He declared that existentialism is nothing new, but that what is important is "that a whole continent could be jolted into grasping such a philosophy. The European theater has shown a hunger and a spirit that is lacking on the American stage," Williams concluded...
Playwright Tennessee Williams called for a state theater as the only remedy for the ills besetting the American stage, yesterday, before an audience of ticket-holders to the Harvard Dramatic Club's production of "An Enemy of the People...
...Stage Costs High...
...problem of democracy: are the common people, the "popular majority," competent to rule, or should the government be entrusted to the superior few, the intellectual supermen? The theme is alive today as it has never been before, and yet Ibsen's play fails to make it live on the stage...
William West, playing the lead role of Dr. Stockmann, is to a large degree responsible for the crumbling of the play into atomized hysteria. Through the first two acts he dashed headlong through his lines, cut in on his cues before lines were finished, and strutted about, the stage with his head slightly bowed and his hands shifting at irregular intervals from his coat lapels to unpleasant gestures. In the final act West slowed down enough to give some meaning to his lines, but he never managed to get across the admittedly poorly presented ideas of Stockmann. Jack Hodges, playing...