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A Vir gin' of the countryside
To the Daily:
Neal Gabler quite perceptively
pointed to the principal short-
comings of the movie adaption
of The Virgin and the Gypsy,
which, in aggregate, should eas-
ily consign t h e film to one's
personal list of "My Ten Most
Easily Forgotten Films." None-
theless, as a British expatriate
I probably was able to resist
the slight sense of the exotic
that the "stunning North Eng-
lish countryside" held for the
average American, and as a' re-
sult saw it as a fundamental
thematic component, instead of
on the level of aesthetics, as
Gabler viewed it.,
In harmony with tlbe ,admit-
tedly done-to-death syinbolism
.as the reviewer aptly observed),
nature in the film provided an
all-pervasive element of sensu-
ality of the main protagonists
(the dwelling of the camera on
the broad back of the horse in
the first few seconds of t h e
film, the gypsy's stallion, the
violent intensity of the swollen
river, etc.) and reached its cli-
max, not in the final seduction
scene, but rather in the repul-
sive detail of the cutting of the
roast beef at the family dinner.
Nature here was not the mere
if magnificent) backdrop to
the action of Far f r o m Athe
Maddening Crowd.. To have,
placed The Virgin and the Gyp-
sy in an urban setting would
have list none of those neo-
Victorian bourgeois aberrations
that the film treats with the
delicacy of a sledge hammer.
But the feasibility of the final
loss of virginity would.have suf-
fered immeasurably from t h e
stand point of its careful moti-
vation.
-James Maharg
Hypercritical?
To the Daily:
I have never been sympathetic
to the overly sarcastic and self-
righteous Daily critics, and the
evaluation given the Paris
Chamber Orchestra has con-
firmed me in this opinion. The
musical knowledge of J i m
Peters, no matter how great,
.does not give him the omnipo-
tent quality of being able to
assess the intellectual attributes'
of an audience: In addition, the
references to the University
Musical Society seem to assume
that an Isaac Stern or a Guar-
neri Quartet can -be had for
every performance. The Univer-
sity is not Lincoln Center, and
even Lincoln Center's would
most likely. be decried by the
Daily's hypercritical staff.
-Martin E:Newman
Two cents worth
To the Daily:
If you don't mind two cents
more in the kitty, I should like
to throw mine ip. As a member
of the Speech Department, but
more importantly as a .member
of the audience of the Univer-
-'sity Player's production of ,The
Caucasian Chalk Circle.
In the first place, dear critics
of any and every production of
Brecht, merely having read
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Brecht on Theatre and two or
three of the man's plays does
not qualify you as an expert in
the art of theatre direction. I
think perhaps dilettante is the
more appropriate name. To dis-
like a production because it does
not measure up to the severe
intellectual requirements of the
modern enlightened theatre-
goer is pure pedantry. One thing
the theatre is not concerned,
with, thank goodness, is pedan-
try. What it is concerned with
is love, romance, laughter, sor-
row - emotional rather tha n
intellectual concerns.
To say that the "modern
theatre" has done away with all
that romantic bullshit means
either that one has only read
and not seen productions of the
modern theatre, or that if one
has seen these productions, one
only looked for ideas and not
theater. The rascality of Azdak,
the devotion of Grusha, are not
parts written into the script to
keep the bourgeois from falling
asleep while the modern en-
lightened theatre-goer absorbs
idea after idea. The laughter
and the love that were in the
theatre when Aeschylus began
his first tragic trilogy and satyr.
play for the Festival of Diony-
sus, are still present in the mod-
ern theatre-and very much
present in Brecht.
If the critics of Coakley's pro-
duction have so assuredly shrug-
ged it off as having missed the
point of Brecht, I ask them to
reexamine just what that seem-
ingly single-minded point is.
Melvin Foster
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