Word: strindbergism
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...last year was operated on for cancer of the prostate. In February he went through an emergency appendectomy, at the same time contracting a case of pneumonia. But now Sir Laurence Olivier is at work on his second picture this year, the film version of Strindberg's macabre Dance of Death. All went well until the script called for him to launch into an energetic dance. Suddenly in midflight, he reeled back against a piece of furniture. Just a passing dizzy spell, said Olivier, and within 15 minutes he was back on the boards, cheerfully zipping through the dance...
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...paid, best educated and most pampered. Fully one in every four workers is employed by the government, which gives them 44 holidays a year and retirement at full pay as early as 55. Theaters in cosmopolitan Montevideo offer such lively fare as Peter Shaffer's Black Comedy and Strindberg's Miss Julia; in the city's quiet little tearooms, a cup of coffee brings free pastries, potato salad, sausages, octopus, pickled cauliflower and caramel pies. At the pleasant seaside resort of Punte del Este, thousands of high-living tourists spread money around like so many beach blankets...
...makes a repertory group outstanding: fluid ensemble work, resourceful acting, thoughtful direction, intuitive dramatic taste, a sense of purpose and style, a firm guiding intelligence and a zestfulness of spirit. Currently making its first Western Hemisphere appearance with a Canadian tour, the troupe presents three classics from two centuries: Strindberg's Dance of Death and Georges Feydeau's A Flea in Her Ear (early 20th) and Congreve's Love for Love (late 17th). No American resident company could have done these plays with equal distinction; many repertory groups could not begin to do them...
...captain. Propped in a wheelchair, jaw sagging, tongue palsied, eyes of stone, he must hear out his wife as she reviles him with reptilian glee. With a last convulsive effort he sits up, as if in his coffin, and spits at her, full in the face. It is Strindberg's riposte to man's fate...