Word: vilar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lorenzaccio (by Alfred de Musset) launched a three-week visit of France's Theatre National Populaire-a people's theater which under the adventurous leadership of Jean Vilar has become popular indeed. Though French dramas of greater fame-Moliere's Don Juan, Corneille's Le Cid-were to follow it on Broadway. Musset's 124-year-old romantic tragedy made a booming opening gun. For one thing, despite its many-pronged story and far too many scenes, Lorenzaccio has considerable operatic stir, psychological lure and ironic force; for another, in the economical way that this...