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...Country Girl, Clifford Odet's newest play, concerns a drunken actor (Paul Kelly) seeking a return to stardom. Both Kelly and Uta Hagen give brilliant performances in this drama. (Lyceum...
Clifford Odets' latest play, The Country Girl, is reminiscent of his earlier works in that the old power and brilliance of action and dialogue has returned. Paul Kelly and Uta Hagen handle this play aboue a forgotten actor's return to stardom. Unlike the earliest Odets' stuff, however, this work has none of the social commentary the author is noted for; it gets along well without...
Odets creates for a time something like a new-angled triangle, and Paul Kelly as the husband, Uta Hagen as the wife and Steven Hill as the director give it tingle and intensity wherever possible. But the real story, which Odets walks up to and then quickly away from, is a compact little tragedy of misunderstanding. It is the story of a woman whose husband is killing himself and dragging her with him and who, for a final indignity, is accused of his murder. It needs austere telling without a false word or a florid gesture-let alone the director...
Opening tonight is Clifford Odets' fine drama, The Country Girl (Lyceum, 45th S.), starring Paul Kelly and Uta Hagen...
...Country Girl" involves three characters; Elgin; his wife, played by Uta Hagen; and the director, played by Stephen Hill. As the inner play is prepared for New York, conflict develops between Elgin's wife and the director and Elgin's ability to return to stardom is doubted. Thus, tension rises and the three characters are in constant friction...