European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 20, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Theater Dublin Heaters enjoying quite healthy season by Francis x. Cl1ne5 new York times Alan there been no riots thus far this by Unn att Ful customers in signal fresh Irish dram of the Marl once stirred will Iii Hulk r Yeats Iff rebuke Philistin ism from stage c enter. Still in in it of Lens s make believe beyond the footlights seems Lively a u. One of i heir More exacting Iri alive artists terms ii " Inte healthy Dowling was rated a daring Young artistic director for reviving the Abbey theater with new writers and tons Idu Riillo experimentation in the i ill iq7ik. Lih Iii is fill in i ibs in a dispute with the Abl Joy about in emphasis on irad Linn theater people say the break focused tin the role of that i slant House As a National institution respomibk1 for some l risks complain can he1 in Overly conservative thu t erf Ingrim the Aler endless of it Irish classics. Since then dueling Hiis become in even larger Independent fore on the Dublin , lately tailing Over Llu handsome Bill daunting 1, gaiety changing in from a variety House fur song revues into .1 new Tulk l for sort it inc nitric ii prox Lucions and he is Suc Cuccin Wilh Otil Len subsidies unik rain la ily. Two of Lii ship Llic Abbt Yinh Iho . Dowlin i Iliili d his Zitti Luton on Kiil pin . I ?v,in1 by Ili a Piti his Lisl part Duclion Arthur Wilk a s Dutilh tit j sch , in tin a Noinin to Lirt Sidn of l int . 1 k Willm Vlaj Thiu Willi .1 wildly Liro dui lion of Hui i l-i.in1. buy Mil Hai ii i4jlht i critic ii Sulci is in ii con and Ting , frill s Noil run Issic of musings on Tho try Lih a to inc by i by i tin ii Roii Lily Wilh uie i Murnam nil t1 find intuitivt1 5l.ibl of . Mac Jan is pure Dpi bust known in the Unildo a Lollos for his shirring rnh1 ind t i closing Nin nolo iut in tin dead John Huston s Lell Lii film of James Jayco s Kuwint a Story. But he Itin Ai Ollil if div Only 4 of o Casey s Luno inf i a far the guile the Alt. Thai Luik dil the Lill Burgh pc Slivny in Scotland Ymir is a san Odoul among the Insl new Urup imn works for its Fri so i Merit of classic . Now the ga1w York festival of inc arli Wilh Dowlin Gagain directing Mccann. The Gale is also sending the festival another of its hits. Vonil Mccann is a of Clor in gaiety s i la go on a dramatic monologue starring Farry Mcgovern compiled from Samuel Beckett Mutiny novels. A Nowill be at new York s Golden Thi Ater from tune 21 to Luly a thu dates and theater for Roll no a Iro still being Nego Malel. Dublin producers Are Lemp cd but wary about expert int plays to the Irish american audience whose Lasics sometimes can Stem Frozen 60 years Back. Bui the Gate is identified with both risk taking and Quality and is demonstrating this As the Dublin season is linked with the City s Celebration of its Yean of pnsl-5candinavian history. Run by Michael Culgin. The Gale run Mart in eni Nusly in the past and set Oscar Wilde s Stit temp to prance hypnotically in a Clever cafe Sot rely version conceived by Steven Bertoff. One of the busiest Voun directors and Fri Lars based in London. Mis 5i/j7ieu one of the biggest critical successes in Dublin in years and is sold nut nightly. Ii is a product of Steven s mind try this try , the Way Ackson Pollock drips paint onto a ," in Linehan the play s assistant director relaxing in the cafeteria of the diner s line dance cell or the new rehearsal Bulldis Northal is a. Kind of a Nam Unity car for workers there s always been that 1 11 of excellent theater in this City but s Neil in the last 15 years is thai the standards of production and style have increased incredibly i in it in said noting thai talented Young people still seem to Rise in Waves by Tahlon Dohlin s Slasis and Ihen migrant in London. On stirs of was ,1 popular favorite As the Nat Giarth Kali fun in the Abbey hit Alt to Lichen by i err Shi , a Spriter and director deeply involved in Irish theater. His current revival of Heno Maee s a ill cent. .1 of Dublin s poor that ripened in april is drawing sizable crowds to the oly Nipra the unofficial working class House one diff Rully in the Irish Thi Ili r is thai a lol of the very brightest new work originates nol Here bul Oul in Galway with the Druid theater k our or in Belfast with the Char Banc 1 healer company or the Field Day company in the North Sheridan explains in trying in irate the latest slave excite men which regularly Mcl Urles the rough magic troupe and ulcers in Dublin at ibo i Ojeil arts censer. Some Irish Lhea Leri Itlen i get Ivy. But the main Abbey talk this season involves Frank Mcquinness the ranking Young Irish playwright who was discovered for the Abbey by Joe Dowling. My guinness is directing some of in own one actor plays for the Abbey. Ziegfeld musical Dazzles London audiences by Gregory Insen United press inc National one Chingis certain about ale god the Gaudy musical Hal i Ila Ling London As extravagant spectacle it just refuses to quit. A wildly extreme scene smites the Eye a whirling solar system if is on planetary globes circling above More girls dressed As heavenly stars on dry ice Clouds through which swirl dancing couples in spangled Black. They la never lop this you think. minutes later they lop it seven girls pose motionless As Creek goddesses on free standing columns 12 feet tall. Profligacy is the order of the Day marvelled out London newspaper critic. Ziegfeld the a Busby Berkeley movie in the it began As a tribute from Britain s greatest showman of today to America s Grea Lesl showman of yesterday Harold Fielding producer of 71 major London shows is honouring Clorenr Ziegfeld whose 21 Broadway Folliet Between 1907 and 1931 have entered american legend. The says the 71-year-old Fielding with a fond smile were famous for girls and spectacular sets and girls and glamorous costumes and girls girls Fielding follows that recipe As if the world were made of Money. He spent nearly $2 million on costumes alone. There arc 25 scenes some Wilh sets by opera designer Robin Don i hat tax belief. Regiments of Long legged girls poured onto the stage like a Niagara of Pulcher etude wrote one happily stunned critic. Ziegfeld Cost More than phantom of the open More irian , More Hun practically any other British musical. I is limitless resources deliver less a musical than a classic revue Wilh front of curtain sketches spacing out sensational routines. Even so Flo Ziegfeld s life Story is told Wilh occasional ingenuity from fleecing suckers in Chicago to Broadway la final penury. Broadway Star Len Cariou plays the showman who when it came to Beautiful women never bothered to resist Lem Lalton. Bul Ziegfeld is not about storytelling or the facts contained in the program s biography of the hero. Its aim is simple pleasure. Nothing in this extravaganza could offend anyone. Its demands on the audience Are Zero. It s in Ideal show for families and tourists and doubtless will entertain multitudes. I decant a Cornucopia of by loved songs 25 of them Many written for Ziegfeld shows by Irving Berlin George Gershwin Lerome Kern and a dozen others. 22 i gripes Mif tint 1
