Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...each of the four cities where Van played on his Russian tour, his performance was broadcast on local TV and radio. Russians by the millions have learned to spot Van's most distinctive trademark-his great shock of springy blond hair. (He tried unsuccessfully all during his Russian visit to slick it down with hair cream and train it down with a nylon stocking drawn over his head, tight as a bathing...
...Soviet Pianist Richter's statement that "his playing excites and moves me as only very few of the greatest have been able to." Later, at a Richter recital, Van sobbed all through the first movement of the Schubert B Flat Sonata. Toward the end of his visit, he confided to a friend what the Russian experience had meant to him. "I tell you," he said, "these are my people. I guess I've always had a Russian heart. I'd give them three quarts of blood and four pounds of flesh. I've never felt...
...Visit brought the Lunts to Broadway-for a rumored final visit to Broadway-in a theater piece of strikingly acrid power. Adapted by Maurice Valency from the German of Swiss Playwright Friedrich Düurrenmatt, The Visit begins in light colors and comedy guise, suddenly to darken the face of its canvas, to blacken the hearts of its characters. A grisly fable of a woman's vengeful hate, it shows a whole community relentlessly succumbing to greed...
With its macabre lighting and with Peter Brook's often eloquent staging, The Visit is as incredible and surrealist, yet as bluntly precise and compelling, as a dream. Right in the midst of her demands for his death, Claire will have a woodsy, almost idyllic reunion with her betrayer. The play's harsh power lies in just such incongruity, in its consistent theatricality, in its mingling of batlike symbolic figures with small-town burghers and clods, in what it graphically evokes but never exactly defines. Is it Schill, for example, that the townspeople finally kill...
...sadly corruptible is man, or calling life itself corrupt? In any case, not since Tennessee Williams' Camino Real has a new Broadway play conveyed so fanged and carniv orous a world. But where Williams traded in the very decadence and violence he seemed at war with, The Visit, whether or not philosophically in focus, never gets dramatically out of hand...