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Theatre
Clurman, Harold | November 10, 1956 issue

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The play "The Sea Gull," for some reason splinters into fragments in the new production at the Fourth Street Theatre. Some of the fragments still reveal the beauty of the whole—one cannot leave any production of this tender play without taking away from it some keen dart of true sentiment or the ray of some fine thought. The difference between the playwright's record of suffering embodied within the framework of domestic circumstance and most contemporary American writing in a similar vein is contained in a line which the doctor says of the other characters, "How hysterical they all are, and how much love." Recent writers have been long on hysteria and short on love.

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SEA Gull, The (Theatrical production); DRAMA; THEATER; DRAMATISTS; LOVE; HYSTERIA
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