Production of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winning play about mankind's triumph over chaos, which wildly altered dramatic conventions in freely shifting between modern-day New Jersey and the ...
Director: Jack O'Brien
Stars: Blair Brown, Harold Gould, Sada Thompson, Rue McClanahan.
This is good stuff. Although it starts as farce (done well), it evolves to serious matter, with feelings exposed. The actors switch well from performing as the characters versus performing as the actors who portray the characters. I don't want to list specifics so as to not spoil future viewings.
I'm glad my memory of this play was ratified. I was very disappointed with an earlier production: The Skin of Our Teeth (1955), 6.
WNET & more, dir. O'Brien; 8-
