George Tabori not only embodies the rare combination of playwright, director, and occasional actor, but, as German theater critic Peter von Becker points out in Materials for the Film "Tabori Theater ...
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Critical Essay by Kenneth Fearing
["Beneath the Stone" is] one of the most moving, convincing, poignant between-the-lines and in-back-of-the-lines novels to come out of the war. The aut...
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Critical Essay by Harold Clurman
Tabori is obsessed with the horror of Hitlerism. Nearly all his writing deals with Fascist savagery…. One of the merits of The Cannibals is that in it Tabori h...
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Critical Essay by John Coleby
[George Tabori] sets The Cannibals in Auschwitz concentration camp and relates it to the New York of the 'sixties by the device of survivors. The play is a delibe...
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Critical Essay by Martin Gottfried
[Tabori's production of The Merchant of Venice] is billed as "improvisations" on the Shakespeare, and as a title it uses a snatch of Shakespear...
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Critical Essay by H. C. Hatfield
[Beneath the Stone is] a slick, sophisticated, competent job. (p. 356)
Despite its trivial plot, the novel has political implications which deserve discussion. Bor...
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Critical Essay by Donald Barr
"Original Sin" is a written monologue—partly what is written, partly what is thought while he is writing—by an aging Levantine who runs a sle...
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Critical Essay by Virgilia Peterson
A strictly private affair, ["Original Sin"] concerns a man's struggle for understanding of himself after he has pushed his wife's head ...
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Critical Essay by Hugh Mcgovern
The double core of "The Caravan Passes" is this: Is the murder of a tyrant justifiable and what kind of a man should a real man be? Mr. Tabori divides hi...
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Critical Essay by Vance Bourjaily
["The Caravan Passes"] is a rich and violent book, a book of trenchant ideas, stormy action, and urgently human beings. This is a say that Tabori think...
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Critical Essay by George Jean Nathan
Unable to make up his mind whether what he had in hand were the materials for comedy or tragedy, Tabori has managed [in The Emperor's Clothes] a hybrid tha...
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Critical Essay by Edith Oliver
["The Niggerlovers"] is as brash as its name. It is a piece of imitation Brecht, which means that it is interlarded with songs, dances, tumbling, and, in ...
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Critical Essay by Edith Oliver
["The Cannibals"] is a nightmare fantasy—an attempt to dramatize the agony and guilt of Jews in concentration camps who betrayed their own people...
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Hungarian-born playwright and director George Tabori, a legend in Germany's postwar theater world whose avant-garde works confronted anti-Semitism, has died, the Berliner Ensemble said Tuesday. He ...
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Robert BernsteinAUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ Dr. Robert Bernstein, an Army physician who served as commander of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center and Texas Commissioner of Health, died Monday. He was 87....
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World War II service shaped the lives and careers of authors Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut, and in turn their works were profoundly influential in the Vietnam era.Vonnegut turned his ordeal as a ...
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