Word: viviane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Appearing at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater, the company opened with two plays that are blithe of spirit and scant of substance: Planchon's adaptation of Dumas' The Three Musketeers and Moliere's George Dandin. Musketeers is a nightlong spoof of the romantic spirit. The production presents Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan as meddlesome buffoons, a quartet of Gallic Ritz Brothers. In one sequence, neon-lit ropes arc the stage like tracer bullets while the cast ruefully announces that it has lost the threads of the plot...
...Roger Planchon directs one of the leading companies of France during its visit to the Vivian Beaumont Theater for the Lincoln Center Festival '68. Dumas Pere's The Three Musketeers and two Molière classics, George Dandin and Tartuffe, will be playing through July...
PHILIP HOLBROOK VIVIAN JR. Cape Elizabeth...
...construction of playhouses flourishes, but the craftsmanlike hand that shapes a play is often missing. The admirable revival of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes at New York's Vivian Beaumont Theater in Lincoln Center last week mounts character in plot as snugly as a ship's model fits in a bottle. Her saga about the greedy success of the hard-bargaining Hubbard family in the turn-of-the-century South has survived the passage of 28 years with its power to please unsapped...
...Unknown Soldier and His Wife. The only evil of war left unmentioned in Peter Ustinov's three-hour verbal artillery barrage at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater is the antiwar play. Despite a sprinkling of quips, Ustinov lays down a lethal set of pacifist platitudes that ultimately calls for an intellectual gas mask...