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Wayward Truman Pendennis, as portrayed by Charles MacVeagh, has a warmth and vitality that flags only when seduced by drink and the perfume of Carlotta Cortez (John Britton), whom, the program notes, is the "Peace of the Villan." He is always enthusiastic and never overdone--a tribute to his and the director's taste. The demons, Simon Darkway and Dirk Sneath, are slimy and deplorable in a hissable maner. As played by Paul Haskell and Jonathan Keyes, they are very successful in linking the whole show together. Marshall Schwartz, who plays the helpless daughter of "Purity, Body and Flavor...
When Playwright Eugene O'Neill in 1941 inscribed the work to his wife Carlotta, he called it "this play of old sorrow, written in tears and blood." So personal and painful were its harsh, acid scenes that O'Neill withheld publication or performance until after his death. As he lay dying, he asked that the first performance of his last play be given in Sweden, where his popularity was always greater than it was in the U.S. Last week, two years after his death and 15 years after the play's birth, O'Neill...
...Long Day's Journey Into Night" is now the property of the dramatist's widow, Carlotta Monterey O'Neill, who lives in Boston. "She loves the reflected glory of being the wife of a recognized playwright," said Kozol...
Suddenly, Dr. David Holderness makes his entry. At first Carlotta is charmed; her rediscovered husband appeals to her sense of the theatrical. But gradually he rouses the irritation he always did. Even in his silence, "he made her feel shabby." seeming implicitly to criticize her way of life. Each of Carlotta's guests uneasily senses David's moral strength, and each turns to him for help; but he can give none of them the ready-made solutions for which they yearn. David is trying to live his own life and to root himself in "a country-bred wisdom...
...Center of the Stage ends indecisively, without the harsh clash that the opposition of Carlotta and David calls for. But while the book is written in too muted a pitch, it is clearly a serious effort to describe, and prescribe for, the Carlottas of this world. Novelist Sykes has an enviable gift for writing cultivated dialogue and intelligent reflection; his book, even in its limp spots, reveals the controlling presence of a grown-up mind...