Word: stagefolk
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Faust contains not just great lyrical speech, but ditties and doggerel, not just shadowy metaphysics but bright worldly wisdom, not just a welter of incident but a web of dreams, not just a prologue about stagefolk but another between the Devil and God. There are archangels along with procuresses, chunky peasants with symbolical wraiths, tavern songs and unearthly choruses, the kind of poem that gave Schubert Gretchen's spinning song, the kind of dialectic that prefigures Shaw's "Scene in Hell." It is among all this that Goethe propels his chief characters, Faust and his tempter-companion Mephistopheles...
...fiancé, then her father, then her little daughter, and finally Sophie herself have extensive visions of what the reunion will be like. Keeping to the brittle comedy mood of the play, Barry uses the visions for satire rather than sentiment, for showing how precocious children and posturing stagefolk dramatize situations. The child sees her father slain by the Other Man; Sophie visualizes her husband's ashes brought to her, by his former mistress, in a silver urn. Then the husband really enters and the story is resolved...
Like his brother, he has been stage-struck since childhood. Living in Manhattan, he chose to go to a high school in Brooklyn because Jane Cowl and other stagefolk had gone there. He dashed straight from Brown University to Broadway, sat around in automats dissecting the drama with an aspiring young friend named Moss Hart. Later he sat at the feet of "the master," Jed Harris. Harris produced Wonder Boy, and Wonder Boy produced Hollywood offers. But Hollywood (Craig's Wife, Yellow Jack), for Chodorov, is purely bread-&-butter...
Manhattan's Studio Theater of the New School for Social Research-consisting largely of refugee stagefolk-which puts on plays generally too risky for Broadway, opened its new season with a play telling why the Nazis were halted, a year ago, in their Moscow offensive. Whether historically true or false, Winter Soldiers by Playwright Dan James has a dramatic explanation : While Nazi reinforcements were being rushed to the Moscow front, the underground movement upset Hitler's timetable with daring sabotage...
...rounds billed as Uncle Tom's Cabin in Swing. The swing was all there, in a noisy, nickel-in-the-slot sort of way; but Uncle Tom's Cabin was not. In his 87 years in the theatre, Uncle Tom has taken some awful beatings-from stagefolk as well as from Simon Legree-but never a worse one than at Waukegan, where there was no auction block, no whipping post, no bloodhounds, no Eliza crossing the ice. Topsy and Little Eva remained-but precious little...