The Iceman Cometh | A Review of The Iceman Cometh
This essay reviews a 1985 revival of The Iceman Cometh, that features the 1956 Circle in the Square production's star and director—Jason Robards and Jose Quintero.
Brustein is a noted literary critic as well as a respected director of drama. In this essay he reviews a 1985 revival of The Iceman Cometh that features the 1956 Circle in the Square production's star and director—Jason Robards and Jose Quintero. The critic finds that both the play and the creative talents behind its staging have aged well.
When The Iceman Cometh was first produced by the Theater Guild in the mid-1940s, hostile intellectual critics invidiously compared it with Ibsen's The Wild Duck and...
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