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Toys in the Attic. A weak man suddenly gains the strength of money, to the distress of his wife and sisters, who preferred him weak. Lillian Hellman's play is excellently brought to life by Jason Robards Jr., Maureen Stapleton, Anne Revere...
Toys in the Attic. In one of Broadway's rare original plays, Lillian (The Little Foxes) Hellman once more proves herself both craftsman and writer, powerfully examines a weak ne'er-do-well (Jason Robards Jr.) and his maiden sisters (Anne Revere, Maureen Stapleton...
Arthur Penn has staged the play admirably. Jason Robards Jr. as Julian, Anne Revere as his older sister and Rochelle Oliver as his wife give solid performances. Maureen Stapleton's conniving sister is full of fascinating detail; as Julian's mother-in-law, a cool, unsentimental woman with a Negro lover, Irene Worth plays with wonderful style...
Toys in the Attic, by Lillian Hellman in a Tennessee Williams vein, had Boston audiences/coughing and ho-humming through a talky first act, but soon caught their attention with enough incest, adultery, miscegenation and fornication to keep a three-toed sloth awake for a month. Starring Maureen Stapleton, Irene Worth and Jason Robards Jr.., it is the first original play in nine years by Dramatist Hellman (The Little Foxes, The Children's Hour). Wrote the Boston Record's Elliot Norton: "She has written wisely, often wittily, and her point of view is provocative. But the basic story seemed...
Nevertheless, there are moments when a whiff of West goes drifting through the theater like a scent of cyanide emitted by a pretty bonbon; and most of those moments involve Maureen Stapleton, a gifted actress from Broadway who, in her first movie role, impersonates a revolting specimen discovered by Miss Lonelyhearts on a "field trip" among his correspondents. But most of the time the spectator is apt to find himself feeling, as Author West puts it, "like an empty bottle that is slowly being filled with warm, dirty water...