Word: theater
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another Western nation forced to ac cept a reduced vision of its importance is Britain, which managed to make the best of it by agreeing with Malcolm Muggeridge that second-rate powers had "great fun." Britain's new devotion to fun produced Europe's most vigorous theater, practically a new age in popular music and a pop scene that has been emulated the world over. By contrast, the French seem hesitant, even fearful about tapping those resources of the imagination and intellect that once struck the rest of the world as being virtually inexhaustible. They have discovered...
...greatest achievements have been largely those of a museum curator-the staging of highly .successful retrospectives (Picasso and Vermeer), the lending of treasures abroad, the sandblasting of Paris' soot-stained architecture. Beyond that, he sought to dot the French provinces with Maisons de la Culture, designed to bring theater and art to outlying cities and towns. While the idea was not without merit, many of the theatrical directors Malraux sent to the provinces proved so anti-Gaullist that he fired them. Even the revered actor-director Jean-Louis Barrault was sacked as director of Paris' Odeon for having...
...ordinary theatergoer, the new season brings the hope of reliving some enchanted theatrical evening of the past. For the actor, the new season holds out the hope of a breakthrough to fame -after which he tends to abandon the theater like a Brando or a Burton. The producer nourishes the hone of a croupier to rake in the chips. The backer, that garishly garbed seraph who roots for his cash on opening night with cacophonous enthusiasm, hopes for some sort of glittering new social credential and the consolation prize of a virtually guaranteed tax loss. The critic approaches...
...season that is starting, hope must be tempered with reason. At the present time the U.S. theater is in a drastic dual crisis. The obvious one is money. In 1956, My Fair Lady was put on for $400,000; last May Dear World lost its backers upwards of $750,000. The theater's angels, who customarily take their temperatures with a Dow-Jones thermometer, feel distinctly chilly after a sustained stock-market decline. The result is that while 33 new plays and 45 musicals have been announced for the season, only seven plays and four musicals are definitely scheduled...
...dramatist with a compelling vision. Half of today's plays seem to be written in some dusty attic of the past and the other half in some apocalyptic junkyard of the future. The shock fads of homosexual, lesbian and sado-masochistic themes, the vogue of nudity and participatory theater may well continue, but they cannot mask the lack of substance. They are frames without pictures, devices without a purposeful direction. This is a theater that is severely pinched for both means and ends, but at least it has a hope chest to peek into labeled Anticipatory Theater...