Word: trojans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moscow was, like almost everything in his career, dramatic and violent. Unable to cross Poland, which was then at war with Russia, he and a colleague signed on a North Sea trawler. They smuggled a band of Communists aboard and hid them in the fish tank. At sea, the Trojan horse was opened, the armed Reds seized the trawler's officers and sailed into Murmansk. (The shipping company afterwards billed the Soviet government for the trawler; the bill was paid without a murmur.) In Moscow, Comrades Trotsky, Lenin and Stalin gave Wollweber a hero's reception...
...should like to make a few comments regarding the H.T.G. production of "The Trojan War Will Not Take Place" and the review of same written by Paul Mandel last Friday. Mr. Mandel's main criticism concerns "Giraudoux's annoying tendency to preach rather than entertain." He is quite right in a certain context, however I believe that a criticism of the play should be made in the context of another view of theatrical productions. Namely, one should have in mind the existing difference between American and French productions...
Having gone thus far, let us add a few words with regard to the particular production: "The Trojan War Will Not Take Place." Mr. Mandel states: "Giraudoux dialogue suffers in the translation and there was nothing the H.T.G. could do about that." Actually it could have; it could have chosen a better translation. Also the translation used was itself considerably altered according to somebody's whims. Since such liberty was taken, it could ahve been used for the better instead of for the worse. Mr. Mandel saw the play in Wellesley. I saw it in the Fogg Museum and wish...
...past two years the only large scale student production in Fogg has been the Theatre Group's "The Trojan War Will Not Take Place," which opened last night...
Jean Giraudoux' comedy-satire clothes the theme of war and its causes in the flowing dress of Greek and Trojan; in doing so it saddles that theme with the static staging and long speeches of all but the most sensitively handled of Greek dramas. Last night's HTG's production was fully adequate, but only rarely sensitive. The result was disappointing...