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...when the American Repertory Theater got going last week with Shakespeare's Henry VIII* and Barrie's What Every Woman Knows, it was all set for at least two years...
...three plays to be offered by the newly formed American Repertory Theater during its Boston run. Although the A. R. T. was organized to bring to the American stage plays which otherwise might not reach the boards, one id tempted to ask, as with their production of "Henry VIII," why this particular play was chosen for revival. For aside from its value as a specimen of Ibsen's development as a playwright, "John Gabriel Borkman" is a sodden and scarcely believable play...
After the splendid sets he turned out for "Henry VIII," David Ffolkes proves to be a disappointment in "Borkman." His evocation of the interior of a Norwegian home in the late 1900's is unimaginative and in the last two scenes, where he is called upon for outdoor sets, he is barely competent...
...actors and maintain a fountain from which will pour a variety of dramatic experiences not available at your neighborhood theatre. Others explain the aim of a repertory company as the staging of classic vehicles, well-known, well-read, but seldom seen--such as this company has done in "Henry VIII" and will do with "John Gabriel Borkman." The actual merit of the production is secondary to the fact that interested spectators are seeing, in ideal repertory offerings, things that were destined for the stage and have, by changes in modern tastes and temperaments, been relegated to the closet...
...assume the proportions of a full-scale engagement in the American Theatre. This week the new American Repertory Theatre entered the lists against the established Theatre Incorporated, Theater Guild Repertory, and Old Vie companies with a high-powered, grandly conceived production of the rarely performed Elizabethan chronicle. Henry VIII written partly by Shakespeare and chiefly by his contemporary John Fletcher...