Word: theatrein
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Garden of Freud, is difficult to imagine. Her characters are strays from the snake-pit, her dialogue is obscure, and the play is wildly incoherent. With cery strains from a vibra-harp introducing the scenes and occasionally backing the dialogue, the play is something for a Grenwich Village theatrein-the-round. Even in this setting, however, the play might be poorly received, since the obscurity seems hardly worth penetrating and often embarrassingly silly. In the Summer House, in fact, has many inadvertently funy moments, and the frequent laughter of the audience need be traced neither to insensitivity nor to pscudosophistication...
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