Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Broadway season's first new offering, Brendan Behan's The Hostage, though less a play than a dramatization of its wild Irish playwright, tells the humane, hilarious, howlingly off-key story of a young English soldier held hostage in a Dublin brothel, is an irreverent stage piece that is thoroughly good fun. The World of Carl Sandburg, an evening of the poet's work more or less acted out by Bette Davis and Leif Erickson, comes off as an agreeable recital, evoking a poet's world that i dramatically mild and a little ostentatiously benign...
...Edwards does a fine job on scenery and lighting, and Alexander Mackendrick's directing seems adequate, although he must do something with the unfortunate Miss Holly and iron out the Prologue. But playwright Joseph has a lot of work...
Huston and Reinhardt first commissioned French Philosopher-Playwright Jean Paul Sartre to do the script. Sartre responded with a 450-page outline (many times the usual length of a first-draft film treatment), and Huston sent it back with gentle suggestions for cutting. From Paris came a second version, 870 pages long, and a third, running to 1,000. Huston quietly set them aside. One trouble was that the script suffered from Sartre's galloping Marxism and deep-seated anti-Freudianism. Said Sartre last week: "Je m'en fiche" (meaning, more or less. "I don't give...
...stage, even though many of its scenes were well written by Playwright John (Look Back in Anger) Osborne, The Entertainer was one of those plays in which the parts are greater than the whole; and the film, which was also written by Osborne and directed by Tony Richardson, is bedeviled by the same faults. Like Archie's life, it is too much of a mess, especially toward the end. Moreover, the attempt at social criticism is strained. Osborne's angry vision of England-as a peeling music hall in which no-talent bums hold the center...
...Dark at the Top of the Stairs. In this light, effective drama about an Oklahoma harness salesman's troubles, Robert Preston runs away with the show in a direction that Playwright William Inge may not have intended in the original...