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...Boston, to what should prove to be the immense delight, and benefit of all good people. This play, by the late Jean Giraudoux, is of a caliber too seldom achieved--or even attempted--these days; it combines imagination, intelligence, and social commentary with the best possible results. Not since Thornton Wilder's "The Skin of Our Teeth" has a play been offered that was capable of stimulating in its audience that honest exhilaration which is the aim of true comedy...
...Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" was performed last. The parts of the young lovers, Emily and George, were taken by Rence Michelson '53 and Burns. England played the Stage Manager and Lois Abrams of BU and Louise Luechm '53 acted minor roles...
...name of August Strindberg means anything at all to the average theatergoer, it usually means a Swedish playwright who came along after Ibsen and who has since been praised by such dramatists as Shaw, O'Neill, and Thornton Wilder, who regard him as one of their teachers. Indeed, the position of Strindberg seems to have been set at half-way between Ibsen and O'Neill in the field of modern, naturalistic drama; and since the former spells death at the box-office and the latter is a commercial risk, Strindberg, by association, has been deprived of his place...
Playwright Thornton Wilder (Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth) revealed some facts about that new play, still unnamed and still in the works: it will need no scenery, no curtain, no stage lights, no music. The house lights will not be dimmed at any time, and the action will unroll without a break. The subject: the life of a man. The casting: different actors to play the hero at different ages; one actress to play all the major female parts...
...only hope for American literature, Lewisohn concluded, is to be found in the work of such prose writers as Thornton Wilder, and such modern poets as Frederic Prokosch, Karl Shapiro, and Peter Viereck. He especially commended Vierock, who, he said, has been alone in his attempt to "convey with lucidity and power certain fundamental realities. of the spirit of man-which is the true purpose of all literature...