Word: visualizer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make a wound. The actors, however, under brilliant coaching by Director Joseph Anthony, use their weapons with such skill and fury that the beholder can often mistake words for swords. In all, the play lacks the emotional substance of important drama, but it has the cerebral excitement and the visual flair of superior theater...
Writer-director Clair uses this circular plot to create a series of situations which are not only broadly funny in themselves, but subtly satiric of modern phenomena like assembly lines, time clocks, and politicians. Emphasizing visual humor, A Nous La Liberte deflates these institutions swiftly and economically. And George Auric's musical score, which supplements and sometimes replaces the sparse dialogue, is as delightful as it is appropriate...
...with surface effects, an attempt to make them appear 'modern,' even if this means contempt for color. What is missing is a maturing process, a depth of spirituality." For Boston Museum of Fine Arts Director Perry Rathbone, it was "a lack of faith in man and the visual world...
...work of such artists as Manessier and Tamayo may be early beacons marking the channel into which an enriched modern art will flow. Better than most of their contemporaries they are beginning to resolve the problem the modern artist has set for himself: creating a visual image that not only squares with his inner vision, but also can be projected as a meaningful experience to his public...
With Anne's own brattish or girlish part in the group, the play also succeeds. In her more personal scenes, where a secret self must be made vocal and visual, she sometimes falls short. There is nothing so private as a diary or so public as a stage, and the two, at times, refuse to dovetail. Again, certain loudspeakered diary passages take on the tone of bulletins. But a play that very largely succeeds with its material everywhere respects it, and in her limelighted Broadway debut, 17-year-old Susan Strasberg plays Anne with obvious talent and much animation...