Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Broadway prices have risen so high that it's lavish praise to say a show is worth the price of the ticket. Most of the present crop are not; several are. And there is one so good that even bringing a date along is not extravagant...
There is a difference between bitterness and cynicism. Cynicism restricts itself to the rejection of certain values; its laughter is limited by the negative function of this rejection. The art of Shelagh Delaney, however, is bitter in that it confronts the present grimness of life while bearing the promise of a distant rejoicing. A Taste of Honey goes on to consider the world to which our generation must give birth...
Miss Delaney's play is a philosophical accomplishment, for she wrings a bit of optimism out of sooty reality; but it is even more significant as theater. Aided by brilliant performances from Angela Lansbury as the mother, and Joan Plowright as Jo, the author manages to present the person she is condemning sympathetically (and thus, fairly). She sets forth the accusation against her with restraint and humor rather than fury, while the informal use of jazz reinforces the author's directive that "the time is today...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). Focusing on the present for a change, Walter Cronkite introduces "The Berliners: Life in a Gilded Cage...
...Harcourt, Brace; $4.95), is a reasonably diverting romance that is not as taut as it should be because its tale of dark doings in Greece and Sicily is interleaved with too much travel gush. The author's proposition is that a band of left-of-Moscow terrorists in present-day Greece plans to set the Balkans afire by assassinating Marshal Tito. The wandering innocent who runs afoul of and eventually vanquishes these unpleasant plotters is an American architect named Strang. His wily adversary is a monster of plumbless evil who calls himself Odysseus-and the author does not fail...