Gallows Humour or the Weeping of the Willow Tree? [antikvár]

Zolt^D Szilassy SALLOWS HUMCim OE( THE TOEING OP/THE WlipOW THEE? In the early »60s fonr ,young playwrights, Edward Albee, Jack Hiohardson, Arthur Eoplt and Jack Gelber distln-gnished themselves as the best prospects for the future of the American theatre since the postwar emergence of Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. The four became acquainted and, especially in the season of 1962-63, they were simultaneously active in the Playwrights* Unit of the Actors' Studio in Hew Tork.^ The young generation of playwrights shared a general dissatisfaction with the"Theatre of Sentiments" and the "Theatre of Verisimilitude," which had dominated the American stage in the previous decades. Psychologioal realism as a dramatic style, still very much dependent on Preud's and Jung's postulates, and faithfully observed behaviourism as an acting style, relying on the methodization of Stanislavsky's System,