Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Caligula, an early work (1944) by the late novelist-playwright Albert Camus, is a study of the fourth and weirdest of the twelve Caesars, which seeks to show that there was a kind of existentialist method in the young emperor's madness -a rebellion against the cruel limitations of the human condition. Star: Kenneth (Look Back in Anger) Haigh, with Colleen Dewhurst. The New Haven Register's Robert J. Leeney called it "brilliant, baffling, raw and rich." (Broadway opening...
There was no fanfare, no fancy set-only an elderly gentleman surrounded by four of his grandchildren in the yard of their home at Pound Ridge, N.Y. It seemed strange to see such a family group gathered anywhere but before a television set. To Poet-Playwright Archibald (J.B.) MacLeish, 67, it was quite natural; he was reading from the works of his late fellow poet, Walter de la Mare, just as MacLeish had read poetry to his own children years...
...Broadway The Andersonville Trial. With overtones of Nuremberg, the play re-creates the post-Civil War trial of the Confederate officer who ran the camp for Union prisoners at Andersonville, Ga. Playwright Saul Levitt ultimately fails to search out the moral issue he raises; but the courtroom battle, theatrically charged by Director Jose Ferrer, makes a better-than-average evening of theater...
...Andersonville Trial. Playwright Saul Levitt and Director Jose Ferrer recreate the war-criminal trial of the Confederate officer who ran the notorious Civil War prison camp at Andersonville, Ga. Although somewhat forced and ultimately unsatisfying, the moral battle in the courtroom has both bursts of eloquence and bouts of theater...
Five Finger Exercise. British Playwright Peter Shaffer introduces a family alive with tension, chafes them against one another with considerable theatrical dexterity...