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vo Plays” produced: ‘he. constdéred -only devoted. to the portrayal’ of. vit~”
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. ‘ harbors thoughts of actively bors-of the. 30s. had faith; those of. Peter ivery: nearly: in. anguish. cries | proving his status. In a play. of
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a supreniée ‘compliment!
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? This. instance. eonvcys: ‘an‘ititude : whie hi appears to, be Ww lroll: for ‘eign. ’ to. the: custom ‘of our: theatre... “Ale promising | new: plat. wright! WithE Us |
“is-a signal: event. His atriv ‘al is not : ~ merely” aréeted: “it is hailed! He. is-.2
; sought ‘after; interviewed" -by: “press _ ‘land . radio. ‘He is ‘questioned. on” teleti ision-on-a.wide-variely of suib=. “Jeet... He, may even be _attackéd—
‘ing: the. paragon: ‘his;. publicity: pro-* ~ clatins ; hit. “-eyentual.: ‘decadence ‘are: set forth: And ‘even: while: his. first /play ‘is’: being” “studied : in: ‘college dram3.:
“courses his second ‘play. may have.
"been produced’ aid: failed... ‘With " this: failure” ‘the ‘young Playwright. ‘rs pronounced: finished?”
We. are an -impationt ‘people. “Wwe.” ‘orave. “novelty: “There ‘is. some vir-*. ~ tue, in: tits: itsnows’ ‘that:! ‘we have: an “appetite for: renewal. and: _for a.
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“Lagvinnt in us ‘to, super heiality, Finmature. ity: antl a _Restlessness. whith Pere mits | “ots. “completion: ‘It * dis--. Courates growth. Te is wasteful and. “finally: ‘Satage.: my .
“In” the. theatre, ‘at. any: ‘Fate, ‘it . Kould: be Wiser if we Mieu. cd: every ': plavitéight “imder. 43" !the-age ‘at. Wwhiclh.Thsen” ‘and ~ Shaw | entered”:
a | their’ most prodigtive’ yeaysr. as” a
“beg sinner:
“Stich: an” attitude might. “prove more. helpful: than frenzied . adtlation | which vis ‘often :no: more than the. ‘yiask of. a: dleepseated. in-aif rence. te,
‘My: pur pose. in: “discussing: -our newest: and “votingest: -playwrigits:
a esa tard. Albce;: Jack: Gelber: and,
> Jack: Righatdson—isnot: tomMeas~
us Ure ‘the -destée. of :their talent ‘or
te predict. their future” value : “but: : to’ examitie in) what: -manner: ‘hey. “ eollectiv ely: ‘represent. certain. -cene
“tral ‘characteristics of: the. moment; | §
-Forthough éach ‘of. these “play-* Mriehts: ‘iss differ ently endox ed and’ -Probably. headed, .in‘divergent. di-. Féctions.” there “can: beno: ‘doubt that: there: is ‘a: Kinship.-among’® “thems They tell us “soinething: abaut pr esent day. youth! but. even “more, about = oitr | “Nmeriéan “world Ben"
for not bes.
The symptoms ot. his: :
play wrizhts © of. ‘théelate. ..°50s . sounded . in-the: concluding. tines: ‘of
“the ¢ play.
‘Williams. ‘The: yearning .and, pi‘otest -of Odets and Miller were “still ‘gultering-in ‘Willianis but: ‘they. ‘are. aurned. inward,..." wots Et
revealing” ‘than -he = ‘may. ‘realize —“Paddy ‘Chayetsky-another | ‘young: playwright—has*. ‘the atheist . “The “Tenth: “Man” Say. “betier:: to. bélieve in a *Dybbuk than’ in. noth.
“ing.” -Thiis isthe‘sort .of -affirma-. ’
-in.
‘more: than. / Sream-custalty.nightman' eS. Oy oe “They” are : yehat. “Bdwatd” ‘Albée
in.
. on ‘feats ‘permanent transients;” They As’ -a*'Sort-_of, . joke—hut : ‘more
are : ‘attached ‘to nothing—noteven | ‘to. women::. (Hardly: -any:. of. these * J new ‘plays.’ deal vith. ‘thé: ‘Telation, of ‘the — Sexcs;: ‘Adhere’. are Very. ‘féwe important: wonien..’ “characters. “in: them, ‘and séxual passion is. almost: “néver: ‘referred ‘to as ‘either ‘a de-
traced. tothe’ ‘work’ .of‘Tennessee’. ‘issue. ‘The best of:.then¥ can ‘do to. Pr ecisely ‘the reaction of the audi-"
‘ence. “ayhich: fails ‘to: -sce. “the ©
. . Ut ra relevance’ Of chis ‘play—and -sev-! era)
““erak.of the of 1ers—to’ Our, ‘present.
. sovial’ conditiom,
‘The. dramat: '¢, “upstiot of: the. play.
is that Jerry. dics: or. rather . com;
its: Suicide. fle forces. Pster .unwittingly’ and nwillingly to kill } liim: ‘To. restate. this ‘less literalli: Jerre: already driven: mad by thecomplacency. o£ Peter's . middle=. class” world | only...
tion—T say this without, malice ‘Tight. ota solace) Freedom. hie’ iii it. in the end,-by ‘forcing. it to”
that‘several, of our talented young.
‘dramatists. haye’ now: ‘reached, ‘S00
ta, speak, on: ‘the: “upgrade!
:Connection’ Is Stylized,
‘Basically: N attiralistie ~
The ‘rote ty pical of. the youngest . “is: .
Jack * ‘Gelbér's’ “The. Connection’. “first: “perfor med July"15,. *59),. The. . plat, “as: everyone | ‘kniow s, théugh ® ‘shelidy ‘stylized, is: abasically: ‘nat-: diralistic” ‘picture’ of : ‘what goes: of
“ jin;a junkie’s pad: that is to: say, it.
‘the. Jingo As still unfaniiliar‘tovou., a place’ where addicts . take" ‘their fix. or. -dose OF ‘heroin, . (The: play? 'S:: “chorus”: ‘Keeps: yeneating : tlirowshe ; out the play.” ‘That's. the. way it. is." That's’ the. way Hit -really “is."1. SUIL | --not. Awndamentally’’ “about: ‘drag addicts: ‘if it. were ‘it:
~ would | ‘nol have: niade the” strong. . people: “with small inéeds” ‘and’ little:
Ww fiase.
‘Tmpréssion. it has. Lo A: -cliaraéler in: “the: ‘play
idea: ‘it ‘is to “make ° a. mov ‘ie: about.
junkies ’ ‘answers’ ‘the “Suaeestion
2) that the: “He -Bomb’ rift? ‘might-make :
& More arri esting, subject, “Well; if.
ait avasin't junk, T would hive* “been °
‘involved: with: something: else,” “Anz; "other. character: ‘commients. “That's ‘vere herdic.” ‘The. reply: deseribes’
w the” ‘play’; ay a whole: INO: “doctors: Bite heroes, No “natives, “no. Christs
That's. a, Very ‘good. score” . “Before: the. final: Curtain: ‘descends: ‘{liere’ is: a. repetition, of “the: most: telling. _ithoug she avordless} scene :of: ‘the. play ia ‘character: ‘enters : who. * “goes to,-the liglit“socket in centre= . ‘stage and plugs. inthe: Gord: of the.’ “portable . phonograph. He opens. “the. ‘plionographi | Charlie’ Par ‘ker (Jazz: ‘record. sEvery-..
and: puts on ‘a°
is ‘that, ‘ot: progressive: jazz... which
Sports no identifiable: theme but :
; leaps: wierdly.. in erratic rhythms: : “How did. these. people: get" ‘that.
Pway? ‘We ‘might speak: of the ab-.. “sence of -arecognizéd, motak atte...
‘the itt: and: ‘of.-’a. fréely ‘accepted | diserpline.. “Bit this ..is. onli, -the..
consequence. ‘of’; ithe. Social. ‘histor ¥
‘or the past. “40 years and: ‘the. “pies
cent: earful: Stasis + in, avhich” prose”:
"perite. and... success . are: the | ‘only: sure. norms: of: yalue.: os
:: THe. ‘Sheei ific‘human “Tesuit. of the: ‘familiar histor VI have sketched is | “most in<sisively dvamatized, in tree | vor: Edsvaid-" Albeé’s: oneact’: plays Which” he | modestly . and, ‘properly “refers | to: as‘ his’ “n novice. work.”.
Just! -ase: ‘there, are no. heroes ‘or. jhacty: s in anv of. ‘these. ‘plays? “the: e “are. ‘also. no. Seniuses Or“peo-,
“ple. of exceptional, gifts, Thé -cen-*
tral: Characters. ‘are’. calwars. litile
‘or no possessions... ALL thes, as} pire, . ‘to ds. Some. “ginal comfort, ’
“Laughably Small. Room’: | Tn. Uper. West Side:N.Y’
!So Jerry” the’ orphan: ‘of: ‘Albee: The Zoo’ Story) written in. 1958 . "and.: fi¥stproduéed—aitéer its world: ,
ie ‘premiere. in. Berjin—in New York’
on’ Jan. 14,:1960: is “iti, his. late : :30s..; livés -jsolated, ‘on. thie. ‘fourti: floor. of ‘a: dismatroomingliouse ’ in New.
* Mork’s upper’. West “Side.” As” hes. a: “highly “efficient: mechanism, j something | small ‘but he, can: create nothing.:though .Giraudoux and Shaw whose man
“ desé rides: rooni”
his = “laughably”. sone of: its walls: is. made. of:
:destroy’. ‘him: as: ‘an: unintellig sible * eae Oe
‘peculiar: history not! 80. much in
ican Dream”: ‘“—a. « more’ ‘patently
‘siylized.-play:: influenced. E-surmise. by -Tonesco.. -“The American. ‘Dream’. tpreduced® ih. ‘the.. fall: of ! : IMGT! isa. caricature of ‘the: Ameri i
achieves ‘comfaet | 1 wor
~ thie: 30s this nurse might have been: : presented ' as'a “reactionary bitch”.
4to use the summary terms of the ©
but Albee reveals: he r as.a.
person: caught in the same -blind °~
‘alley of a. “closed”
society: as. the.
. Yearning but ineffectiv e intern. and
Ke secthing: ‘but cowed orderly.
The climactic speech of the play”
is: ‘that of the Nurse. who cries out ‘with a vehemence: which transcends: naturalism: “I am. sick of. Pit! 1 an sick; I am sick: of everything in this. hot. stupid, fly-ridden
and
‘betw een the. Way things are,
i as they should bet. Iain sick of this ‘Peter ” ‘in: a “way? has ‘his own. |
“THe: Zoe, Story” asin’ The Amer fae of . you.
i thought: of you makes me jieh,
desk ; ....I am‘sick ef this uniforny —it scratches, Iam, si¢k of the [the *orderly,.
id I:am sick of the disparity
the . ‘T.
‘am. ‘sick of hinv [the intern]. I any.
phone: in this damn stupid hospital.
‘lam sick of the smell of Lysol >
an middle-class -home. Here’ ‘Papa; could die of it’. .-: I am sickof.
has: been . ‘disembowelled‘and. de-s aoing to -bed ‘and. I am sick of: a sexed” by surgéry and. Mama . isa
“bejeweled ‘souse Whose~ quatking
Papa. silently. ‘suffers. While Grandma’ ‘isa. crusty and..cracked old -seothsayer * whiose’ hometriiths’ . ine, ‘trude_ on’ the bedlain: | of. discon. “nected ‘dialog: “like -idiotic. ~ir-! ’ Felevancies: Mama’ and Papa*have . chad: no .children. but: Grandma re-:: “Veals: ‘that, they had: ‘once . adopted“ a. ‘bumble’. ia baby. In: the. course “of: niaking. it’ -into a: proper ‘child. they chad) Slowly: dismembered it. ‘The: ‘baby. Finally Vanished: «= oo."
. “Into: this: ‘household: Tow, comes.
La -handsomieyouth, as perfect. a: 4 specimen. asa refrigérator.: fit for J modeling or anv. other: form: of. coinmercial * éxploitation.. He © is’ ‘looking: for. Work: lie. will: do. any=. thing ‘for. money. The. boy ‘reminds ° Grandma of theearlier. ‘ ~bumble.”
xX splendidly: packaged : ‘youth, the boy. ‘confesses :himsel£, ineapable ’ of
love: though . everyone” loves zhim..
‘for his ‘phyiscal: ‘attractiveness.. He
retary
‘he can ‘perform: W hatever. Yabor is’:
| Mirror.
Waking up.
‘fired. of: the. truth and Tam
sick of talking to people on the.”
“Toam tired: Iam
‘tired. of Iying about. the truth 2...
.l am tired of my. skit. Out...
-Fruit of Seed and Soil” Our Society Provides
oF en 4 |
a © Want es “
1 do not blame those who disli 2.
these’ plays’ If they do not actually ‘the . -barrenness ‘of.
the.
everyday: life of our community. ithey are certainly the fruit of the:
“ seed" and soil. that” our ordinarily: ' “provides.”
-
society ,
a Jack Richardson is. the pleacant=.
est, of the three writers we have. ‘to consider and: in a certain sense’ the | most cultivated. Perhaps“he.
“Should not even be enrolled inthis scowling ‘league of youth. Tiiz two. ‘plays’ “The Prodigal” ¢F 10.. 1960) and “GaHovus Hamor”
i”
VApril 18, 1961) he tries to express
“confidence jin life, and to smile like the smiles. of
net -and‘language he occasionally
‘beaverhoard:.’ ‘Wwe. learn : that, “his demanded (of him. His :name. says. imitates. |.
neighbor. is:-a: “colored” homosexuat
as lonely. as. Jerry himself. -In. an: wT
“other. -sniall -. apartment: lives’.
Puerta Rican: family: “a. hushand. a \wife-and : ‘Sonte Kids: ‘T-don’t ‘kno’ hon many. "Neither: does he know.:
“.Grandina. is’ the: American. ‘Dream: “‘This-ov erlong, play’ 4s biling’ but ; ‘in. <omparision -. Wwithe “The ‘Z00 story ‘rather arid. : Its” audiences. are ‘on the: ‘whole: vastly amused’ by vit.sbeCause for one: thing: Albee. is .
Yet auc cessful |
“The: Prodigal. ”
of his -two efforts,
ihe ‘more.
-ideolozically runs parallel with its.
it is .anti-heroic, antianti-commitment.
zallows’ Humor
‘¢pevals: “ politic al. ‘second.part. of ‘
erally ” ole ‘assiimes ‘an intensé. pose of lis-. any -of ‘thre people ~ .on ‘the. second. ‘ often. funny “and, can “waite..-One “mocks! at Conformity and the rule Clifford: Odéts: and Others stening and. Narry carefilly. picks. and: third: . Aooi:s : — “except: thiat™.. wonders: however, jf these: ‘audi‘of habit: the first) part ri sup. the-“Fecord; ¢loses: the -phonbthere's: a lady ‘living in one of. fhe. .ences.. realize: that’-in.Taughing: at changes ‘on. the. axiom: take a
; Oo” ere: ‘Rebels’ of the. 308:~
s the 30s:
oa *, oo swete |
Such talént® as thieis. emer ged. ins
ther i—C ‘liiforidl Odets préeniinently: “rebels”: Whose. values were _ Based -anthe classic preinises . of
Tour: oldest religious traditions: “hue ' “
man brotherhood; / social: justice,
a concern: for. . ‘the’. underprivileged,
os ahdroism,”
-But the’ young dramatists’ ;
” axapli,. “unplugs. ‘the’. : Cord, and | Jeax: és. There ‘isa lon? pause; One
ot: the’: “hnisiejans : ‘onstage. starts ; landlad¥: 'S maney doz..whoni’ Jerry:
cementing. their: feeling.” " o a”
“This ; is: the’ ‘play's peliloust®? rituala concentration. ot and an." absorbtion’ inthe. wild wail: tlie
The
‘rooms: ‘who. tiits ‘all thetime. ‘The’ this ‘devestating ¢artoon they: are chance ’.on life. Fhe -accident ‘and. *
landlady: ‘is * ‘fat. ahd. drunken;
“ugly, unw ashed: There’; jis: also: ‘the.
air ies desperately.” ;
but. ‘unsuc cess
“in ‘Central: ‘Park: Jérry. confronts.
Peter: a amarried. marin. his’ early | the: ‘younger. generation. ‘thinks ef In’: AOS?" publisher's: editor: Who earns... our world: today ‘is “Thie‘Death’ ‘of. is’ indeed somewhat : ‘strained -be=
lauching: ‘at’ themselves: — ‘or. at. their: ery. close: relatives.
“Death of Bessie ‘Smith’ ~ Is ‘Approach ‘to: Realisin
: The third demonstration: of w hat
hurly-burly which. are. at the core
Hot: being are -not only to be ‘ac©
| ¢épted™ but embraced and rejoiced
in. The world is so crazy and~so “l fidamentally without: design that
ev en. food may ‘be expected of-it. “Gallows “Humor.” the hunior
“hope: for peace, resistance to.ty ratt:“Tete eh as: -of. the: Jazz,.enizma, -$18.000'a-year -and/ lives ayith. his. Bessie. ‘Smith’*a play: in: eight “Cause its-fables do not inevitably ny. Odets and Jiis fellows may. not” “Se ha: Le ten At chope’ ‘tho * wife and childrert-in the East -70s. Short-scénes. first. produced in Ber‘produce’ its ‘precepts. wey Deal’ ete. after: the, war “confronts? ‘Peter be. Orestes will not také. sides with”.
BE ‘believed ‘in God. but ‘tliey: ‘be-ieved.:. ‘Their.-héroes -wére .' No’ hig hts: in shining armor’ but they *, vatere®: ‘either secking new. her OCS OF *: enjoming Us all’ to“adopt. alr heroic.’ “' starice,: to‘be heroes’ together, zit " Worst they -deplored: ‘the Jack of: “heraes: of jhe: -debatich{ng. “of+a. youtir whic’ might withihe: help: of _ sane. . “Social. > elreunnstatice : attain”
Tne: impetits’ ‘of. the’ 7308. was ‘eure’
agaist I ascisnrand “Nazism. after: + Mir ‘Oshima, ° Salter: the. -Fetir It. ‘to‘hisiness ; ‘as. ‘usuak: after: “constant talk: of dis| arinamenit ‘a€commpanied bv increas: : “ing pi "eparafion, for and. ‘appr chen-. ‘sion’ of “nuclear: ‘war, Solly the ‘in: tellectualin, “The ‘Connéction®: ‘de. ‘clares,.“ ‘You-ate fed: up-with ‘every. thing. for. te: tnoment. : And: like thé rest: of:us you.are.a ‘Wiltle : ‘hun ;
‘after.
i ‘say Jerry:
.. _calse. the ‘conversation in. the: Park. . SeCarthyi ‘igm:: 4s
“is: iniposéd: on’. Peter: by: Jerry's |
Jin in 1960. and’ in, New Y ork. in the | ‘Winter of 196F: oe . Lf Bessie". ‘Snuith”, ‘Is as, “elose:: ‘an:
‘A gameminon against Aegisthus: or “ce versa. He is indifferent to his
. fierce deterniination -ta talk.:to. “approach: {o realism; as Albee’ ever; mother's adultery, to-his father's
_ S6meone’ how} :
might. _ Understand ° desites.to make.. All his plays have-.classic -heroism, .to the new order...
bis. “specel. if ‘nothing else: This ‘something ‘of. the: ‘parable. -abouit:"-his: father's. rival wishes to. estab“speech: is” a” stylized’ ‘amalgam. of . them. (am inclined to regard Al, lish, Orestes ‘merely: desires that:
‘sophisticated ” literacy with -street-" Corner. + slang‘. ‘madé.
‘bee's ~ realisny: “aS ---one. OF ‘the:
: comically, i ‘soundest “aspects of his writing, ‘obtrusive. nd-* uninvotved.”
‘his* freedom “be “indolent, “un
He.
“eloquent. by : Albee's s. almost’ exces: ‘Symbolism is rarely Valid ormov-: just wants: “to. Jive” -or to put it: ‘in: ° “the. -blunter language of the au
sive facility: , > Jetty: ‘is; “igaressively oitile ‘and. “eonciliatory : the. same’, ‘tinies
pis -except when itfs couched: in” supremely. -expressive Jangnage . OF ; ‘when’ -its roofs’: are deeply. im=
ethor’s » “contemporaries, he
‘wants out.”
too. .
se mot ta fed: or modified: by the -spasm. of": ‘Bry. for a Jittle’ hope. So. you Wait”
no ae ar “much . to’ say, hig: pathetic example jury:.ofthe: ‘play, “tliat tlie. people ;
‘Peter’: tries. to. Be. “friendly. thioush’. bedded ‘in the :soil. of: Seeply im: |" When ‘Orestes: is condemned to ‘he* is. “discomfited’ When” héeisnot 4experience.! What. is. ‘especially re-exile . Jor -his'-hedonisti¢ anarchism‘. appalled : by: ‘Jerry. The | . Contrast ¢ ‘markable.’ about” “Bessie: Smith” ‘Is. che. is delighted. to leave. the “silly
‘+ the war. the late '30s-_Arthur-.and’ worry, A-fix.ofhopé. A fix'to “Miller “continued. the “religious”: forget: A “fix to. remember, to: be (6F "the: -hortatery! line... of! the. sad; to: be happy. to: be,.-to” be.” S9..
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oe istrous than: any: ‘put :the. finks in. fhe ‘upon. . a. White: hoise.-Gallant’, ‘unmistakable. .. thee. “Vadical™. .. dramatists | of. the. prepared. ‘and’ launched. “Ihaye. 7 oo betty A poor “and "sorry: 4 gure, .white pow der”. Lo vchich: someone “On hearing. the: ‘description: “of. Thirties—Albee. ‘deals’ : with’ (the “chésen.as my. friend and travelling ¢. “but Milier vowed ‘that: ‘he was worth. reforts’ “There “ ain't -hothing "gals “ihe ‘tenants in Jerry's s‘,Fooming° ‘material. . ‘in. an \ original. -manner. ¢ompanion..’ says Orestes,” a peér-.-<o otde. atteation.that: he-. possessed. ‘Tant abouit: ‘lieroin, . baby" rhouse: Peter dlurts owt, “F-find. it ‘The: ‘subject is” the fate, of Bessie . son whose: only ‘worth is his charm=
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