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...Westport, Conn., Country Playhouse: First U.S. performance of Ugo Betti's The Burnt Flower Bed, starring Eric Portman, Signe Hasso and Gloria Vanderbilt...
...Westport, Conn., Country Playhouse: Hans Conried in a new play by Arthur Watkyn, Not in the Book...
Another side of this sensationalism is "Westport comedy," as exemplified in The Marriage-Go-Round, The Tunnel of Love...
...Seven Year Itch, etc., all "b~sed on adultery by intellectuals. Unlike French farce, it is essentially smug. You have to be able to live in Westport. You know all about Freud. You have to be able to af ford the slightly Bohemian reconverted barn in which the artist for The New Yorker, that safe citizen of our times, works...
Critic Kazin blames both Tennessee sensation-mongering and Westport comedy on a secret hunger for wickedness and bohemianism found in a rich, middle-class society. But he also blames Broadway's frightened, money-grubbing drive to achieve hits at any cost. "Suddenly, the theater, born, they say, of ritual, becomes a hideous bore. All that enormous effort, all those lights, all that beauty, all the pulls to make us believe in the artifice -all suddenly frantic and mean. I went to the theater to discover another world, the true world of imagination, but I saw only...