Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visits Ingmar Bergman and sees him as a Northern Protestant, a man reminiscent, incredibly enough, of "the black preachers of my childhood." In Norman Mailer, Baldwin finds a man who cannot give up what Baldwin terms "the myth of the sexuality of Negroes". Richard Wright to him is a tragic figure, a man who, by the time of his death, had estranged himself from American Negroes and who snubbed Africans, and so ended his life "wandering in a no-man's land between the black world and the white...
Kean (book by Peter Stone; lyrics and music by Robert Wright and George Forrest) casts Alfred Drake in the role of Edmund Kean, the early 19th century Shakespearean tragic actor of Drury Lane fame. The hero pursues a nightlong quest for identity, and the theatergoer may wonder why the case was not turned over to Mr. Keene, Tracer of Lost Persons. This lavishly mounted, richly costumed wide-stage dramarama is the most elaborate fiasco of the new theater season...
Anything but an angry young exercise in social realism, The Caretaker is a study of the human condition at the outer limit of endurance, both funny and tragic, paradoxically baffling and plausible, gifted with the poet's touch of universality, and turned out in colloquial dialogue that is breathtakingly cadenced and exact. It has been interpreted as everything from an allegory of the cold war to a modern view of Christ, man, and Satan, but unlike so much of the so-called avant-garde, it is thoroughly alive on Level One: the stage...
Gordeyev tells the tragic story of a morally sensitive, socially conscious young Russian merchant (Georgy Yepifanstev) of the last century who asks himself: "Is a man born only to make money?" In an episode of shuddery weirdness and God-haunted irony, the sanctimonious serpent (Pavel Tarasov) who serves as the hero's guardian, glassily indifferent to the vast icon of Christ that looms behind him, replies: "Eat or be eaten. That is the law of life." Unable to accept such a law, unable to find a better one, unable to love a good woman (Alia Labetskaya), the hero plunges...
...grips with an urban world. Variations on an Oedipal theme provide the central plot line, as we see against the spectre of an overprotective mother (Katina Paxinou) the struggle of the saintlike Rocco (Alain Delon) to save Simon (Renato Salvatori) from the dishonorable ways he has fallen into. The tragic situation is provoked by the love affair of Rocco and Nadia (Annie Girardot), a prostitute whom Simon had loved and lost. When Simon learns of Rocco's success, he drives himself to re-enact the primal crime, raping Nadia in Rocco's presence, beating his brother, and eventually killing...