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...concept of the repertory company is several thousand years older than Shakespeare: a troupe of actors who can perform in any of a dozen or more plays. By contrast with the one-shot, boffo-or-busto standards of commercial Broadway, the dream of the modern rep company is to produce plays that have merit in dramatic literature but only moderate box-office potential, to try out experimental plays and at the same time serve as a living library of the great classic plays of the past, to take green actors and train them to maturity in roles of all sizes...
...past year in a temporary Greenwich Village theater and scheduled to move into the Lincoln Center complex next fall. Last week the dream had all but ended. Director Robert Whitehead had been forced out of his job; Director Elia Kazan had followed suit and resigned; and Arthur Miller, the rep company's principal playwright, had given up his association with the theater...
...Lincoln Center rep company began compounding its errors from the outset. When it was set up nearly five years ago, the directors' first move was to go for Broadway brand names and select two of the best: Whitehead, producer of Bus Stop among other things, and Kazan, one of Broadway's most celebrated directors, who staged A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Arthur Miller, after eight years of silence as a playwright, offered his services, which at the time may have appeared to be a dividend...
This season the rep company began with its worst fiasco yet, a revival of The Changeling that revealed just how inept the company, as presently assembled, is. For example, Actress Barbara Loden, who seemed to be a remarkable find as Marilyn Monroe in After The Fall, turned out to be embarrassingly like what one would expect Marilyn to have been if she had ever played Dostoevsky, as she was forever hoping to. And with Incident at Vichy-Arthur Miller's new hit-things came full circle. Thus, approximately one year after its opening, Lincoln Center has served as little...
...State Rep. William A. Carey (D-Roxbury), a spokesman for the marchers, said the "cursed and cancerous urban renewal program" was "driving human beings out of existence and destroying property at the expense of the taxpayers...