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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Triple Play--three one-act plays by John O'Brien at the inimitable (and unpronounceable) Teatro Nucleo Eccletico, 37 Clark St., the North End, Friday and Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STAGE | 7/28/1978 | See Source »

...even more as an introduction to Beckett's ability to combine heightened abstraction and idiom in a comic synthesis (even in serious criticism). The essay begins: "The danger is in the neatness of identifications. The conception of Philosophy and Philology as a pair of nigger minstrels out of the Teatro dei Piccoli is soothing, like the contemplation of a carefully folded hamsandwich...

Author: By Tom Keffner, | Title: Beckett: Reclaiming the Unusable | 11/3/1976 | See Source »

Strehler, 55, is one of Europe's best-known stage directors, a co-founder with Paolo Grassi of Milan's prestigious Piccolo Teatro. But, unlike his countrymen Franco Zeffirelli and the late Luchino Visconti, he has not yet worked in movies, and so is almost unknown in the U.S. A native of Trieste, he comes from a musical family; his mother played violin in a professional string quartet. "I grew up reading music," says Strehler. Since then he has hankered to be a conductor. "It's a pity that I'm not qualified to conduct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Unlocking the Essence of Opera | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

...most of Strehler's career has been spent in the theater. When he was rehearsing Bertolt Brecht's The Three penny Opera at the Piccolo Teatro in 1955, the playwright showed up, hung around after opening night and finally handed Strehler a message typed on an envelope. It asked Strehler to be the artistic custodian of Brecht's works, not just in Italy but in all of Europe. Brecht died the next year, and Strehler has carried on. His timeless, yet utterly contemporary staging of The Life of Galileo is considered a classic, used as guidance even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Unlocking the Essence of Opera | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

...moment, at least, the war seems far away in Silva Porto, but the enthusiasm for UNITA and Savimbi is everywhere. Last Monday night he appeared at a workers' meeting in Silva Porto's Cine Teatro. Sitting behind a table, dressed in his customary fatigues and beret, he delivered a dazzling two-hour address to the more than 1,000 people who jammed the simple theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Short of Everything but Spirit | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

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