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Titanic's voyage to disaster, with all the triumphs and hysterics reported in Walter Lord's 1956 bestseller. Done in stark documentary style, with skillful collaboration from Director Roy Baker, Scriptwriter Eric Ambler and Actor Kenneth More...
...basement room, known as the "slave-quarters," uncovered by workmen in the forties, presents its own tantalizing remnants of the past. A stark metal bed and a small bureau bearing an old photograph of a dairy cow still remain. Workmen originally found rotting drapes about the room and a carpet in much the same shape. The drama behind it all remains ambiguous...
Robert Linn's set is stark and unnerving, combining well with the rather shadowy lighting of Peter Erskine...
Brooks Atkinson '17 of the Times called it "one of the memorable works of the century as verse, as drama and as spiritual inquiry." He termed the production "magnificent," and said, "In every respect, J.B. is theatre on its highest level." More recently he called the play "a stark portrait of ourselves composed by a man of intellect, faith and literary virtuosity...
Equally successful is the butterfly-roofed conference hall. With roof and monumental façade shaped from folded concrete slabs, it attains simple dignity by the drama of its stark engineering. Says Nervi: "At last reinforced concrete has become a 'noble' architectural material...