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Word: rrenmatt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other Albee plays, The Zoo Story and Everything in the Garden Arthur Miller is represented by The Price and The Crucible, Tennessee Williams by Kingdom on Earth, and Eugene O'Neill by A Moon for the Misbegotten. There was Anabaptist and King John by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, three Shakespeares, two Sartres, Sophocles' Oedipus, Brecht's Threepenny Opera, Shaw's Pygmalion, a Renaissance knockabout by Niccolò Machiavelli, a late 19th century melodrama by French Primitive Painter Henri Rousseau, works by Wilde, Sheridan and Molière-besides three plays by Czech author Karel Čapek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Czech Stage: Freedom's Last Barricade | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

...their native hardliners, Czech directors have repeatedly put on Western plays with themes of conscience and freedom. They have reached back for historical plays that echo themes of patriotism, power and treachery. The most arresting of these is King John, in the recent adaptation by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, which turns Shakespeare's melodrama into a brutal and very moving confrontation of activist idealism with the chill realities. Suddenly, also, there is great theatrical interest in the Hussites. Several plays have been put on or are due next season about this Czech religious reform movement that was savagely suppressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Czech Stage: Freedom's Last Barricade | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

Good Start. Gordon Davidson, the Taper's artistic director, plans to follow The Devils with two new dramatic works by U.S. Playwrights Romulus Linney and William Murray, and with Friedrich Dürrenmatt's The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stage: Three in the West | 4/21/1967 | See Source »

...Visit is the kind of movie that leaves viewers wishing they had seen the play instead. On the screen, it is little more than a melodrama. On Broadway, as an unforgettable vehicle for the Lunts in 1958, Friedrich Dürrenmatt's drama drilled annihilating satire into a spare, pitiless tale of vengeance and greed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Woman Wronged | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

Though the movie follows roughly the same plot, the darkly gleaming heart of it has undergone major surgery. In a postscript to his play, Dürrenmatt wrote: "Nothing could harm this comedy with a tragic end more than heavy seriousness." Director Bernhard Wicki falls into that error, compounding it with a gimmicky screenplay. The eunuchs, the coffin, and much of the mordant wit are omitted, as is the wooden leg. The sex angle is fattened up with a juicy subplot. And to make the slow corrosion of conscience more graphic, the good burghers of Guellen struggle against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Woman Wronged | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

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