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...British Playwright Tom Stoppard chain-smokes ideas like cigarettes and emits the smoke with puffs of mirth. The latest display of his intellectual curiosity, verbal agility and quirky sense of humor is Jumpers (TIME, March 11), a comedy currently on view at Manhattan's Billy Rose Theater. Jumpers is a philosophical roller coaster careering dizzyingly along the parallel tracks of wit and logic over such subjects as the existence or nonexistence of God, the nature of good and evil, and the interdependence of ethics and metaphysics...
Died. Marcel Pagnol, 79, Provençal schoolteacher turned playwright (Topaze) and filmmaker (The Baker's Wife) whose tender stage-screen trilogy of life on the Marseille waterfront was the basis of the Broadway musical Fanny (1954-56); in Paris...
...lead characters are as fully and forcibly acted as Wicherley drew them. The butt for most of the bitter satire, Olivia--an insatiable gossip, scandalmonger and flirt--far surpasses a mere personification of hypocrisy through the impeccable performance of Susie Fisher. The moral horror felt by the playwright at the sight of such a character is infused into the audience. John Sedgwick is an entertaining Freeman, the eloquent mouthpiece for some of Wycherley's most incisive observation...
Andorra is a quiet, whitewashed country, small and seemingly guiltless. But Max Frisch's mythical principality (which bears a suspicious resemblance to the playwright's native Switzerland during the Second World War) is also bourgeois, complacent, chauvinistic, murderous. Sam Guckenheimer's production of Andorra tries to dramatize a Semite-as-scapegoat projection by a society of private interests united out of fear. It works, but blunts a few edges of Frisch's dialogue...
Andorra is by Max Frisch, a Swiss novelist and playwright who writes in German and plans on speaking, presumably in English, in Emerson Hall tomorrow. You can check out the play the night before, because it opens tonight. Or you can turn the page. 7:30 at the Loeb...