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Theatre East (Sixtieth Street near Third Avenue) is a cramped basement whose very slightly claustrophobic atmosphere reinforces the mood of the play, which is given in three-sided arena style with the audience close upon it. The arena arrangement strengthens the claustrophobic feeling, and Jack Youngerman's stark set does nothing to dissipate...
Last week the product of Tobias' threes-months' stay in the Amarakaire village was on view at Manhattan's Peridot Gallery. In large, freely stroked oils, brown-banged, stark naked warriors tumbled in play; the camouflaged mask of a jaguar peered from a matted jungle...
...world and the cosmos as well. The masks of the actors bear a bizarre and wholly appropriate resemblance to the grotesque faces of the magnified reptiles and insects seen in the Brattle's introductory short subject. Tanya Moiseiwitsch has provided lighting, costumes, and a set too stark ever to suggest some transcendent tempering of the harsh natural order of things. And Yeats' translation of the chorus' last lines--"Call no man fortunate that is not dead./The dead are free from pain"--crystallizes the pessimistic fatalism and brooding sense of ultimate doom that pervade the whole from the outset...
...panoply and suspense of the conclave, it is a stark and lonely time for the cardinals themselves. They are imprisoned in an atmosphere of Renaissance marble contrasting with improvised wooden partitions, inhibited in their talks with each other and especially with their accompanying conclavists (with whom they are forbidden to discuss the balloting). Even their meals, in a temporary refectory set up amid Pintoricchio frescoes in the Borgia apartments, offer little comfort. Cracked one Vaticaner when he heard that the cardinals' cooks would be six sisters from the Order of Santa Marta: "That alone will be a great encouragement...
...Vincent van Gogh (New York Graphic Society; $50), a handsome three-volume set that includes 194 tipped-in facsimiles of the illustrations Vincent sketched into his letters, with the heedless profusion of a man who had far more confidence in his draftsmanship than in his vocabulary. No more stark and intimate account of a painter's agonies, slow development and indomitable courage was ever set down...